Sound is Crapy

[Contra]

i have a asus a7n8x(in my Sig)

and i am getting scratchy sound after playing for about 10-15 mins.

it is getting annoying i have to stop the game and restart to get the scratchy sound to go away anyone else have this prob with their boards?

[stan03]

is your computer overclocked? are your northbridge and southbridge cooled? is the sound onboard?

[Contra]

yes sound is onboard
and no not over clock here
it may be getting hot
the northbridge is cooled bue not the southbridge i will try that

[twEEkerAreUs]

You didn't mention your speakers, but my personal opinion is the onboard sound sucks for the A78NX. I was running it when my soundcard went out this week and it made my Klipsch 4:1's sound like TRASH. They are analog but regardless unless your using strictly Digital. It sounds to me like it may be a driver issues with the Soundstorm, but even mine sounded kind of scratchy or out of tune. Not 100% sure but try these one's

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=135938

[Sentential]

Almost everyone that OCs using the onboard sound has gotta sink the Southbridge. My sound was aweful during games. Now that its sinked, it sounds beautiful

[Steven4563]

i just stuck a SB cooler on and my sound is so much clearer now even my G/F said it :D

[Contra]

i did today and it is no longer making scratchy sounds

[Packrat]

Hmm.... I put on a HS and it still duz dat. It's a little HS, but dat's wat it's for. Do I need a bigger 1?

[Contra]

well i noticed scratchy sounds again today

[Packrat]

Wat do u notice it in? I only see this effect in Halo. However, my friend is also having this problem. With him, however, it's simply because he has a worse sound card. I forget wat it is, but he has an ASUS board. His CPU's actually underclocked, though, so that's not the problem with him. Any suggestions for either of us?

[Contra]

i'm gonna try a fan on my SB, right now it it just passive

[Packrat]

ya, mine's just a passive HS at the moment too. However, it just has the cheap white thermal paste, so I'm thinking about using the good silver stuff (CompUSA's version of AS5) and perhaps the old NB fan from my NF7-S (I replaced the stock one w/ the Vantec copper one). However, the fan is quite large, larger than the SB. Plus, there is no way to secure it. Suggestions? OR should I just use the little dinky passive HS that's on there now, just with the good goop?

[Contra]

mine is very close to my VGA card abd i can't fit a fan over it an like you i have the problem of attaching it so i am gonna try to thermal epoxy
people have suggested it

i think comp usa sells it if not there is a computer store near here that probably does
and i will try that with a small fan the ones that are deep and like 1 inch square

[Packrat]

I might try that, but I am a cheapskate and don't want to buy anything I don't _really_ need. Therefore I might mess around with it and make a creative solution.

[Contra]

here is the little fan
it blows like 5.5 cfm i think
better than most NB coolers i have seen some as low a 3 cfg
but i like that it is deep less of a dead spot(in theary)

[Packrat]

WOW that's a tiny fan. I was thinking more along the lines of those chipset coolers than a separate fan...

[Sentential]

My SB is actively cooled and the sound is crystal clear. Try either using a bigger sink or actively cool it.

BTW this is what I used:
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=291975&pfp=srch1

[Contra]

yeah that is the same as my fan and i have a sink from them on it but just havent attached it yet i will now... then again lazyness wants to take over... i'm fighting it


i think i'm gonna build a ducting mod aiming air at it because my heatsinks from my VGA card are just about covering it very edge of it
and making it too hard to put the fan on

[skitlets]

try drivers?

[Packrat]

Hmmm....... I have the drivers dat came w/ mobo...... need new ones?