Another soundcard thread :(

[Oceanic]

Well upon building my new system, i find that the AC97 onboard sound is static and noise added to normal sound. previously i had cmedia 8738 on board sound on my kt4 ultra and i used its 2 channel outputs with no noise.

so, i go and get a philips dynamic edge. games sound weird, theres noise.

so, i go and get a soundblaster live 24 bit. everything is ok, but one of my speaker sets,one i dont want to get rid of, somehow gets loud hiss non stop while the rest do ok. games sounded fine, so i was kinda mad.

so, i go and get a cheap cmedia card with the same chip that was on old mobo, hoping to get similar results. nope, noise and screech when you do different things in windows.

so, can anyone with a chaintech AV710 or a turtle beach card tell me with certainty that there is NO static,hiss,or noise under any circumstance, and games sound normal?

any other advice will be appreciated

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I've been using my AV-710 for over 6 months in digital out mode and analog with my headphones and don't remember ever hearing any static from it.

I also don't remember any performance problems on my TBSC that I had for ~3 years. A few times over the 3 years windows and the santa cruz control panel would seem to randomly stop recognizing the card as installed, but a restart would fix that. I think that's the only problem I had with the card.

 

[Oceanic]

i wonder, would speakers recieve some type of noise that headphones wouldnt, under the same conditions?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

If your headphones sound fine, it could very well be something wrong with your speakers.

What kind of speakers do you have? Are the connections secure? Have you tried them with another source without moving them to see if they still get some static? Are any speaker wires running parallel to power cords etc.?

 

[Oceanic]

i havent tried headphones yet.

everything is the exact same as it was before as far as wiring and connections, and i never once had noise.

 

[Oceanic]

is there a reason cards have hiss and noise? is it the chip? the quality of the connecting jack? if i used all my speakers for a year and never had noise once it has to be possible on another card. the same chip in pci card form gave me hiss, whats up with that?

does the chaintech av710 have ANY hiss or noise in normal 2 channel mode?