It made the noise with the stock Intel heatsink I used, I just replaced it with an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro heatsink and the noise is still there.
Could my motherboard be messed up? I did a search and read about other people having squeaking noises from the 680i motherboard.
I have never heard this noise during normal use. I have played BioShock for 2-3 hours straight and it never made any noises. It is only when I run the orthos program. But should any computer be able to run the orthos test with out any problems?
My motherboard is around 2 weeks old now so if there is a problem I would like to get it sorted out asap.
Actually the box that I got from Tiger Direct that had my Motherboard and Graphics card in it looked like it was opened and all the wrapping that comes around the individual item box was slit open. Now if I was the one who received this box I would of never signed for it but my mother was the one who signed for it when I wasn't home. I figured whatever and just wanted to try it out and hope for the best. All the little foam packaging pieces were missing too and I know it had foam stuff in it because there were a few pieces of it still in the box. Now I am Canadian and this shipment did come from across the border so I thought maybe customs opened it all up. But why would all the foam be missing so who knows what happened. I do know that I hate dealing with Tiger Direct and think it will be a huge hassle (shipping back to states at my expense and hope I get it back).
Here is quick story about my experience with Tiger Direct:
I order a motherboard, Graphics card, and Windows XP OS. The box arrived like I descried above and the Windows XP cd was not in the box. Phone them up and tell them it was missing. Ended up getting a refund and having to place another payment to get it shipped back to me. They ended up charging $20 more then what I originally paid for the XP OS and they also charged me shipping for a mistake they probably made themselves. I ended up getting the XP OS about a week later and ended up phoning Tiger Direct to clear up the $20 more and shipping charge. They refunded the $20 and the shipping charge and now Tiger Direct is my number one hated computer store. For one thing I didn't even know the stuff was coming from the US.
They say this on their site:
TigerDirect.ca is headquartered at:
55 East Beaver Creek Rd. Unit G
Richmond Hill, ON
Canada, L4B 1E5
So I naturally expected the items would be shipping from within Canada. I didn't however have to pay any duties when it went over the border but if I did I would of been really
EDIT: Forgot to say.. I bought all my other stuff from DirectCanada.com and I highly recommend them to anyone who lives in Canada. Great deals on shipping right now, I ended up getting free shipping for my Antec case and a bunch of other stuff. Ended up hating the keyboard I got from them and the heatsink I got didn't work with my motherboard. Ended up shipping them both back and got refunded very fast. Later bought another heatsink and some other little stuff with no problems. And they are stationed really close to were I live so I get the stuff pretty fast.
