I upgraded this morning to a CPU - i5-2500k MOBO - MSI P67A-GD53 8 Gigs of 1,600 Ram 128gb SSD Crucial M4 With my old Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB GPU and a Corsair TX650 PSU I am using the on-board sound with just headphones and I'm getting a weird power hum/hiss every so often, I can't quite place when it's happening but it seems to be when it starts using 3d apps like games or a website with flash running. I've checked the graphics card and its seats properly, I've made sure the audio cables are all routed fine and not to close to power cables. But its still doing it Any ideas?
Have you tried both front & rear sockets/ panels? Same problem? A certain degree of hiss is fairly normal when the volume is cranked up enough, you may have to look into a sound card unless someone knows a software/driver-based solution..
Aye tried both, Going to take another look inside in a mo, I wonder if it might be the something to do with grounding. Its not the usual hiss of just being v loud if that makes sense. Its deff distortion as its also distorting the microphone on the headphones. I also tested them on another pc and they where fine there just incase I accidentally broken them
Sounds like crosstalk from another electrical device. I have the problem majorly with my not magnetically shielded speakers. Are you running it through the headphone port on any speakers? Are you using any form of extension (monitor/keyboard/etc)? Because onboard sound is on the motherboard where all the other circuitry is you can often get electrical whine from the computer. A sound card should solve that. What headphones do you have?
Yup as everyone said.. your problem is simple: interference. The only solution is a dedicated sound card, which not only will solve the problem but also eliminate static (even at max volume), and a nice increase sound quality at a noticeable level (assuming you listen to high quality MP3's, and have a descent (above 100$) speakers, and at least OK headphones. I recommend the ASUS Xonar series. - Xonar DG - Bare minimum dedicated sound card. Cheapest, of course. Sound quality increase won't be very noticeable, but you do solve your problem with interference and static. - Xonar DX - Med range dedicated sound card. Sound quality increase will be, or should be noticeable (else you have poor speakers/headphones and/or listing to poor quality music files) - Xonar Essence ST - High end sound card, aimed at audio enthusiast. Sound quality is really high, but to really enjoy this card you need a good pair of speakers and headphones. This product is designed for music lovers.
Hey all thanks for the extra advice, yeah going to look at a Xonar tomorrow if it still makes noise. although I just totally took out the graphics card and reseated it once more, but this time pushing it in more firmly and blasting a bit of compressed air in the pci-e slot, it 'seems' okish atm, although I'm paranoid now and every little sound might be it. But the electrical interference hum seems to of stopped. So fingers crossed it was just me being useless when installing. My headphones are a pair of the Sennheiser headset ones so pretty good quality
Picked up a Xonar D2X in the end, sound qualities improved as well so I figure it was worth the splash out in the end. Pain in the arse installing it though for some reason. Windows 7 decide it wasn't going to recognize it until about the 8th reboot and driver install/uninstall attempt Thanks for the advice again guys
Try the newest drivers from the website of the onboard audio chips (probably Realtek). I cleared up the static and hiss i had while using onboard audio.
