how to reduce 'noise' with onboard sound (realtek hd)

bledd · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:17

ie, when you scroll wheel in firefox, you can hear a slight fissle through headphones

are there any bios settings that can help this?

my xfi is in my media centre, and given the hassle it has with vista, i'll leave it where it is (in a vista box, but thankfully not giving me any gyp)

i'd rather live with this for now than buy a sound card, money is tight and you can't tell it's there when playing games anyway

suggestions?

james.miller · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:23

its electrical noise. in short......nope

you can try the usual muting the microphone but i wouldnt expect it to work. the only way to really get around it is to buy a card

snowdog · 9 Apr 2008 at 21:55

Ah that's what it was, me woundering what on earth caused the sound during scrolls.
A standalone card seems to have made it gone.
Just pay 15 quid for an audigy SE and ** problem will be gone.
It sounds a bit better than onboard too.
Hardware decoding for upto 63 voices iirc too so less cpu usage.

Hxc · 9 Apr 2008 at 23:02

Bought a USB Dac/Amp for my headphones to sort this out and give them and future cans a bit more punch. The interference on on board sound is truely awful.

snowdog · 9 Apr 2008 at 23:17

Now that I think of it, my pc didn't use to be that bad.
What's REALLY bad is when I plug in my headphones into an ages old lappy.
Every time the hdd works you hear millions of clicks through the headphones wich makes enjoying music almost impossible. Never mind when u plug in a mouse and scroll.

I can believe amped headphones must be terrible even on a normall pc.

Btw does anyone know if cheap 5€ ac97 soundcards fix the problem too? Or do you need at least something like a SB live! ?

Monkeynut · 9 Apr 2008 at 23:23

Any would prolly help the problem, since it's further away from the mobo and less likely to get all the interference. Do the ASUS Supreme Audio cards do this?

RobH · 9 Apr 2008 at 23:45

I've just noticed this happening whilst viewing the forums, Steam poped up an 'friend is now playing xxx' message which makes no noice but I heard electrical interference on my headphones which are plugged into the realtek hd. That must have been caused by the video card or CPU drawing more power.

james.miller · 9 Apr 2008 at 23:50

yep. a lot of people will hear it if they are listening for it. then you wont be able to ignore it lol

bledd · 16 Apr 2008 at 13:36

damn, that's retarded, can't they just supply the audio on a pci/pci-e card instead of putting it on the motherboard, surely easier for them & better for customer

just nead a cheapish soundcard that works perfectly in xp/vista 64 then :/

any 2nd hand cards to look out for? infact i've got an sb live 24bit at home somewhere

-Ad- · 16 Apr 2008 at 14:07

james.miller said:
yep. a lot of people will hear it if they are listening for it. then you wont be able to ignore it lol

Got that on my asus p5b-d motherboard too, very annoying.

My soundcard doesn't have 3.5mm jacks, and has a breakout cable with x2 RCAs for connecting to an amp, now amp is with hi-fi in living room. Use my headphone amp sometimes or the onboard sound.

PLus use the onboard to connect the mic up, but realtek has problems with steam games so mic doesn't really work in game (css, tf2). Works one game, then pushes out maximum volume static the next :rolleyes:

Time to get a 2nd soundcard for my pc, cheap one will do to connect up budget logitech speakers. It's either them or my headphone amp / grados for gaming, which are alse not great as with grados it sounds like someone running around is coming from everywhere. Really need some senns.