[HELP] Weird sound issue, crackling and cutting in and out, can't narrow it down?

RipGroove · 3 Feb 2021 at 08:25

rids57 said:
looking at the photo the two full length slots will be shared together and the three small slots should be on another bus

I've put the Soundcard in the very bottom full length slot for now, so far so good.

rids57 · 3 Feb 2021 at 08:30

Fingers crossed

RipGroove · 3 Feb 2021 at 08:49

rids57 said:
D'oh! I just spotted a 3rd full length PCIe slot right at the bottom - now I'm completely lost as to which slots are being used

Sorry, bad explanation on my part, so far it's been ok, if I get problems again today then I'll move the sound card to a smaller PCI slot, this is how it is currently:

rids57 · 3 Feb 2021 at 09:56

My Gigabyte board has a similar layout and the 3rd full size slot is shared with one of the short ones, so if yours is the same it should be ok

RipGroove · 3 Feb 2021 at 10:05

rids57 said:
My Gigabyte board has a similar layout and the 3rd full size slot is shared with one of the short ones, so if yours is the same it should be ok

Hopefully!

RipGroove · 3 Feb 2021 at 12:14

rids57 said:
Both systems are using the PCIe bus and it only seems to happen when the GPU is under stress. Crackling during recording just means the sound was present when you were recording it so it will be there no matter what you play it through.
It may be that the only solution is to use an external DAC/Amp or USB soundcard such as the Creative SoundblasterX G6 if you need virtual surround sound.

Well I think you nailed it there, I've not had any issues since moving the sound card so hopefully that was it. Very strange that the problem manifested itself 3 years after the sound card was installed though as none of the other hardware has been changed in that time.

RipGroove · 4 Feb 2021 at 14:09

Well, I'm calling this fixed, cheers guys

rids57 · 4 Feb 2021 at 17:29

Good to know