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Onboard audio + windows vista + core 2 duo = fail
GameHat
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I recently built a shiny new PC.
It's beautiful. Runs all my games flawlessly. But there's one nagging problem:
Audio.
To save $60 or so I kept the onboard audio on my Asus P5Q-E LGA 775 Intel P45
No matter what the application, I get little sound stutters. Just little bursts of sound, not unlike what you hear when you plug in powered speakers to a sound card. Not even a second's worth of sound, just little glitches that I can hear and that drive me mad.
For a few apps I can fix this problem. Example: The Sims 2. If I set the Sims 2 process affinity to only one core, the stutter vanishes.
But this same trick won't work for other programs - iTunes, for example.
I've updated all SoundMax and motherboard drivers. My Vista 64 is fully updated.
Questions:
a) Anyone know a fix?
b) I'm not totally adverse to the idea of spending maybe <$100 on a dedicated sound card. BUT! I absolutely do not want to do this unless I'm sure it would fix the issue. Would it? Also, I have no open PCI slots, only PCIe.
It's beautiful. Runs all my games flawlessly. But there's one nagging problem:
Audio.
To save $60 or so I kept the onboard audio on my Asus P5Q-E LGA 775 Intel P45
No matter what the application, I get little sound stutters. Just little bursts of sound, not unlike what you hear when you plug in powered speakers to a sound card. Not even a second's worth of sound, just little glitches that I can hear and that drive me mad.
For a few apps I can fix this problem. Example: The Sims 2. If I set the Sims 2 process affinity to only one core, the stutter vanishes.
But this same trick won't work for other programs - iTunes, for example.
I've updated all SoundMax and motherboard drivers. My Vista 64 is fully updated.
Questions:
a) Anyone know a fix?
b) I'm not totally adverse to the idea of spending maybe <$100 on a dedicated sound card. BUT! I absolutely do not want to do this unless I'm sure it would fix the issue. Would it? Also, I have no open PCI slots, only PCIe.
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