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Old 12-01-2007, 05:49 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: M1330 whine...is it your CPU or Southbridge?

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Originally Posted by guy121 View Post
I don't have a M1330, but I was thinking capacitors sometimes make a whine. So maybe the motherboard changes some capacitors.
capacitors dont whine mate...its transistors that whine! And these days we have 100's of millions of transistors within the chips. There's not a single capacitor within a chip!

I know for a fact its the 82801HBM southbridge cos me & my mate took apart his M1330 to find out where the whine was coming from, and it turned out to be the 82801HBM southbridge (noise was coming from under the express slot)!

The current poll results show that 60% of M1330 owners have whine coming from the southbridge!
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