Hi all.
Last month I finally found the $$$ and will to get a new pc since the old one was, well, too old. I'm no tech expert, but I do have some experience / skill and therefore decided to build my own (have done it before). After browsing some hardware review sites I decided to base the pc on a Gigabyte mobo. However, I'm really starting to regret it.
The installation and configuration went just smooth and the computer works exactly as it should - except for one minor, but extremely annoying issue. You see, the playback of music is flawed. It works perfectly fine when I just play music and don't do nothing else, but whenever I try do use the pc at the same time the playback is ruined by constant pops and hiccups. The pc only hade the motherboard's inbuilt sound card at first, so I bought an external and hoped it would fix it. It didn't. The problems often occur during regular usage (starting Firefox, browsing pictures, etc) but most of all when typing with the keyboard! Listening to music while writing a document in Word is unbearable. I've fiddled around with the settings and tried different drivers (both new and old) but nothing seems to fix it and it's starting to drive me insane.
Here are the specs:
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
Corsair TWIN2X PC6400 DDR2 4GB KIT CL5
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Se Bulk
Windows Vista Ultimate SP2
So, any suggestions on what to do?
