Terrible Sound with SLI enabled

somewhatdamaged · 14 Sep 2007 at 09:50

Guys,

I really hope you can help me. I am having terrible problems with my sound crackling only when I have SLI enabled. I have tried the following :-

Sound Blaster XFI Gamer Fatality Pro – Quality is absolutely atrocious and completely unusable
Onboard audio – crackles whenever ‘video’ is involved, IE if I keep Windows Media player minimized its ok, as soon as I can watch the video effects it crackles badly.
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro – Same as onboard Audio

I have spoken to DFI who say the problem doesn’t lie with them, and Nvidia seem to suggest the same with regards to their chipset driver. As for Creative, well you can probably take a guess. They didn’t even bother responding!

It’s very frustrating as I spent over £2500 on my pc and the sound sucks, ruining my gaming experience

Should I bite the bullet and buy a different brand? If so then my XFI is up for sale! If anyone is interested!

Thanks

DFI Lanparty NF680i LT
4 x 2GB Corsair XMS2
Intel Q6600 G0 Quad Core
Enermax Galaxy 1000w
2 x 8800GTX
Coolermaster Stacker 832

somewhatdamaged · 14 Sep 2007 at 10:06

Any idea how i can adjust the PCI latency on Vista x64?

somewhatdamaged · 14 Sep 2007 at 10:26

Yeah i looked on them, loads of posts and not a single definite answer from Creative

I am disappointed with Creative's lack of customer support. I really feel like they couldn't care less about the 5% of people having problems, as long as 95% are happy (or simply not bothering complaining)

Can anyone suggest a good PCI sound card that WON'T crackle with SLI enabled?

I was hoping the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Soundcard would work fine but don't want to splash out in case it doesn't work either!!

somewhatdamaged · 14 Sep 2007 at 10:34

The sound card is in the bottom slot, i tried moving it up 2 slots but it didn't make any difference.

The only other thing to try would be to use the bottom two PCI-E slots for the graphics cards, meaning it would be running at 8x instead of 16x which i don't really want to do

Surely, someone at one of these companies must have tried various sound cards in a board that uses SLI before selling them? It seems crazy!