overclocking, and a pci sound card...what works?

[Mellman]

Ok I built my new conroe rig, With both my DS3, and P5B i had cracking and popping from my sound card. Its a known issue.

No matter what I did with clock speeds, pci frequencies etc, it still happened.

I'm annoyed! Is there an add-on sound card I can use that WILL NOT make these noises?

I thought I'd be fine to use the onboard sound, but it does not have an option to chose "what you hear" as the recording device. This is mildly annoying because I use this feature sometimes.

Any suggestions?

 

[Thor86]

When installing your OS, you need to make sure your SB card doesn't share IRQs with other devices in your system, especially drive controllers, as this caused issues.