High pitch noise heard through soundcard

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Morning all,

I have a Asus Xonar soundcard and when I turn my headset up to half volume on the inline volume control I start to hear a high pitched whine. :mad:

The noise does not appear to be related to the OS as changing the windows volume control has no effect.

The noise only seems to occur when the monitor is being sent a signal and starts at boot when the light turns from orange to green.

Once windows has booted the noise fades a bit, as soon as I start a game or something like MSI Afterburner the noise starts again.

The headset is a Turtle Beach HPA2, I have tried my old Medusa headset and the same thing happens so I do not believe it is the headset.

I have turned off the case light which eliminated some of the noise

Nothing else is plugged on to the PSU connection that the soundcard is on

I have unplugged all USB devices (I powered the headset off the mains adaptor)

Unplugged the monitor

Even updated the bios :o

Yet the noise still persists!


System spec:

Q9550
8GB Corsair RAM
Asus Striker II Extreme (1402)
Asus Xonar D2X audio card
Linksys Wireless Network Card
Sapphire ATI 5970 (OC version at stock)
The CPU and graphics card are watercooled using Danger Den D5 vario pump
PSU Corsair HX1000


This weekend I am planning on removing the network card (don't think it's the culprit but might as well eliminate it). Removing the Xonar sound card and reinstalling the Supreme Audio card which came with the motherboard.

I have a nasty suspicion that it's the graphics card which is a pain to remove as it's piped up. I'll see if I can move it to another PCI Express slot and then try an old Nvidia card as an alternative.

If anyone has come across this before or has any ideas on how to solve it I'd be really grateful.

Thanks
 
A high pitched whine that starts when you boot up the computer or play games, is it your girlfriend?

In all seriousness though, could it just be interference caused by fans/ extra power drain in your computer? (I realise your using water cooling but assume you still have a rad in the case).
 
Very good! She's known about my gaming habits for 7 years so It's not as if she wasn't warned!
I should have said, I also temporarily disconnected all the fans and even the pump for a short time - no change (except temps started to rise quickly!)
 
I suspect it is your graphics card. I once had my xonar right next to my gpu and the whine drove me up the wall. All solved once I move it to another slot further away but I had to drain and redo my water cooling to acheive this. :(
 
got my d2x right next to my lower gpu and it doesn't do this, although i've removed the EMI shield - logically would make it worse but it's all groovy :p
 
twist3d0n3 said:
got my d2x right next to my lower gpu and it doesn't do this, although i've removed the EMI shield - logically would make it worse but it's all groovy :p
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I reckon a lot depends on your graphics card to be fair.

I never had a problem with my gtx260 but my 5850 gives my xonar big issues.
 
Unfortunately the graphics card is as far away from the Xonar as possible but I'll shift them around and see what happens or pull the power from the 5970 and put in an old 8800GTS.
 
Quick update, just tried new AV receiver using S/PDIF and no annoying noise - which makes a bit of sense...
Headphones still being a pain on analogue out
 
I had the same problem . on my xonar dx and asus ma479xtd mobo

i bought a new one as i assumed that it was faulty.

noise is back .

noise stops when the card is being used i.e playing audio file or game.

do you have teh same mobo as me ?
 
Hi,

Same manufacturer, different motherboard - Asus Striker II Extreme.
I'm wondering if it is related to my graphics card - when it is stressed (benchmark / game etc) the noise intensifies.
I'm not too bothered by it now as I can balance it out by increasing the pc volume and lowering the amp on the headset.
It doesn't affect the sound I get from my amp - via HMDI output from graphics card (HD 5790).

What graphics card do you have?
 
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