Reducing noise on my sound card

[poop]

I am hearing copious amounts of noise from my sound card. Now that I am using a better sound setup with my PC, the noise is more noticable than ever. I am using a cheap sound card (Ensonic AudioPCI).

I was trying to find ways of reducing the noise I hear. My current thought is to wrap the sound card in a big sheet of metal to use as a ground shield. Will this help? Or should I just save up for a card with digital out and get a receiver with digital in?

 

[BigSmooth]

Unplug your speakers.






(Sorry, but someone had to say it)

 

[pamchenko]

try to go to the sound control in windows and lowering the master volume while using the volume controls on your speakers exclusively...keep wave out volume high

 

[bigbootydaddy]

ive noticed on a lot of sb cards, if you have line in volume up, it makes a loud hiss..

dunno if thats what you hearing, might only be on the the digital cards

 

[PliotronX]

My MX300 exhibits strange noises whenever accessing the hard drives, inserting CDROMs, moving the mouse, and clicking the mouse. It is quite annoying. I feel your pain.

 

[tomcat]

like mentioned, lowering the master volume is your best bet.. that should do it.

 

[poop]

Actually, when I got home today the noise is not there. I think I have it isolated to my CD-ROM drive. I think when a drive is spun up the noise is there. Otherwise, the noise level is indiscernable from the regular amplifier noise (which is quite a bit... AIWA sucks).

Good thing I am upgrading soon