h55m-usb3 sound stuttering issue

[escher]

I have a GA-h55m-usb3, and it is experiencing sound stuttering issues.  To the best of my knowledge, I have all the sound drivers all up to date.  Any fixes for this problem?  It is very frustrating to use this great computer to listen to music or watch movies when the sound skips.

[Dark Mantis]

It will almost certainly be a latency problem. Download and run dpclatency checker and see what results you get. Assuming that I am right then you will need to try disabling devices in Device Manager to find out what is causing it.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

[escher]

I did run the latency check, and apparently there are some issues.  Are there any better methods to figure out the problem device besides disabling devices one by one?  Perhaps worth mentioning, is that I am not using the integrated video card, but instead i'm using a Geforce 8800gt card.  Gigabyte recommends using the Driver Agent software, but I'd rather not have to pay to track down drivers.

[Dark Mantis]

There is no easy or quick way just a case of disabling devices until you find the culprit. It mayn not even be a device it could be a piece of software running in thebackground. Into Device Manager you go