Incredibly Annoying Static

The Halk

The Halk

The Halk

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I did have an Abit Fatal1ty motherboard, and there was a bit of annoying static.

I've just moved to a Asus A8N32 board, and the static is worse, it drives me up the wall.

I usually use headphones, decent ones too :P

For some reason I don't get the static when the CPU is under load - if I run Orthos for example there's no static at all. If I don't have the CPU under load the static is awful.

Can anyone suggest either a fix for it, or, if a decent soundcard will prevent it?
 
It's EMF, of course.

Just wondering if anyone has suffered the same and found a separate sound card helps.

Or if they know if the higher end soundcards have stuff build in to get rid of EMF.
 
Is this using onboard sound? I had terrible static/interferance when I used my onboard sound. Completly dissapeared when I switched to a proper sound card, well as proper as a SB Live 1st Gen is classed nowadays.
 
Alright. I'll be buying a soundcard then.

I've been looking at the ones OcUK sell, and frankly I can't tell the difference between them.

It'll be an internal card, PCI preferred, could do PCI-E if necessary.

Requirements are - No static (of course!), works well with 5.1 speakers and with decent headphones.
 
Only game I'm playing at the moment is Eve.

I don't play FPS.

The PC does contain my entire music collection, and I watch a lot of downloaded TV and DVDs etc on it.
 
Should say thanks for the fast replies btw!

But, going back to it. I was looking at the Asus Xonar D2. The only thing is seems to be lacking is anything past EAX 2, which for me is no issue.

Unfortunately though I could read the specs for sound cards all day long and know nothing about them.

Another thing is the temperature, do they generate any/much heat?
 
All soundcards (bar the xfi) are quite cool.

Xonar looks fantastic on paper and should be great for sound, I have not been able to get my hands on one so couldn't comment on the drivers/audio quality.
 
Yep, the only two things holding me back from ordering it is

- It appears to have lights in it. I've just rebuild my PC, and all the tubing, wiring etc and lighting is exactly the way I want it. I don't want nasty LEDs polluting it.

- It's in budget, since I don't really have one, but I'm thinking it might be overkill and something cheaper would do all I want.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Hence the auzentech's :)
Click to expand...

I'm murder for not seeing anything but the most expensive :P

Auzentech X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect PCI Dolby Soundcard....

How's the signal to noise on that? (I'm assuming signal to noise would be the EMF and static etc)
 
Success - no EMF unless I turn the volume up high (at which point the headphones are deafening). So at any level of volume I might want to listen to it's fine.

Argh. And of course Teamspeak doesn't work. There's always something!

And no sooner do I type this than it starts working :P

Really, really enjoying this absolute silence!
 
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Yep, now I just need to un-rack my drives, install the new ones, RAID em, move everything across, re-rack them. Fun fun fun :P
 
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