ASRock Ex4 Gen3 and 'noisy' PCI-E interface

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Hi all,

I'm pulling my hair out over this one, so any help appreciated. I just purchased an Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 and a Xonar DX PCI-E sound card. People started to complain that when I spoke in-game (CoD:BlackOps), they could hear a very distinctive 'buzzing' sound, so I recorded it and here's what it sounds like. I've posted some questions in the Sound forum as well as on the Asus website but no one can tell me whats causing it. Having done some tests, if I remove my GPU (GTX580) and play of the HD3000 GPU on the i7, I dont get any feedback. I've tried an older GTX260 and get the buzzing sound, but if I use a Creative x-fi PCI-E card I get no such issues.

So this leads me to think that the PCI-E bus is very 'noisy' on the Asrock mobo's or the card is faulty. Either way, is there any other peeps out there with the same combination and are any of you having problems with a noisey microphone? The best way to tell is to put your Mic into Monitor mode and then start up a game.

Thanks.
 
Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 + Xonar DX PCI-E + Discreet GPU = Noise

Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 + Xonar DX PCI-E + HD3000 GPU = No Noise

Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 + Creative x-fi + Discreet GPU = No Noise

So by deduction from proven good parts

Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 + Xonar DX PCI-E + Discreet GPU are all good.

Therefore it must be a Driver issue between the Xonar and Nvidia drivers
 
Make sure you have the latest Xonar DX driver (check Asus website) plus worth trying a different board slot (if possible) to see if you get the same issues.
 
Got the latest drivers from the Asus site and moved the card to an adjacent free x4 slot (the other x1 slot is partially blocked by my H50 radiator). The problem does appear to relate to the card rather than anything else, but could this be a faulty card or drivers? I'm starting to think it cant be drivers as there would be a mountain of other people complaining about the same issue. So do I risk RMA'ing the card and trying another? I'd love to hear from someone running this card in the same mobo to see if they have the same problem.
 
I think i have this exact same problem.

i have an ASUS Xonar D1 installed in the furthest PCI slot and people are complaining about a Buzzing sound whenever i talk when playing a game. When i'm not running any game the voice comms is fine (or less apparent).

Never had this problem with my old Socket 775 board.
 
I have tried a different headset and i'm currently using a set of Sennheiser PC 360's and i still get the problem.

Don't get me wrong... i LOVE this board... this is the only niggling problem i have
 
I RMA'ed the card (thanks OC!) and bought a Xonar Sense instead. No noise problems what so ever. Now a very happy person (I even like the new Sennheiser's that came with it!). Dont forget a I tried a Creative X-Fi Titanium as well and that worked with out noise, so its not the board as far as I can tell. I just didnt like the X-Fi after listening to the Xonar :-)
 
TBH i don't know as i've had this sound card for a while and haven't used onboard in a while. things may have improved in that department compared to skt 775 days but i always hear people say there is a world of difference between the two.
 
your running allot of graphics on the PCI-E bus mate - have you tried plugging in the extra power molex direct to the board?
 
I installed a new sound card in my asrock extreme 4 gen 3... Mic wouldn't work then it did but no speakers... Fiddled a bit rebooted a few times and then it all worked fin... Still stumped what fixed it
 
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