I bought one of these cards for my new gaming rig consisting of 2 GTX 780's in SLI, The phoebus is sitting between the two of these cards and is highly exposed to the EMI that the cards give off.
After a week of running the PC playing various games everything was working fine until suddenly the people on TS were telling me that they could hear a motor bike in the back ground when I spoke. At first I thought they were being idiots but eventually it got to the point where I realised there was actually a serious problem.
At this point a friend and I attempted to diagnose the problem where we found this specific forum thread. Now I started to worry that I had a faulty card and would have to RMA it. I tried everything, Moving the card to a better spot, Making an EMI shield out of cardboard, paper and aluminium foil. Nothing seemed to work.
Until finally at 12PM at night everyone on TS had left for sleep and yet I was still sitting there stressing my head off over the fact I may not get my money back from the shop I bought it, I found a nasty little setting that a) I didn't know it existed and b) Don't remember playing with or turning off.
I found this setting above to be turned off even though I had never touched it.. I never even knew it existed so I had no idea that it was preventing the EMI from coming through to the Mic.
and to prove it was this setting , the next morning I was literally toggleing it on and off and getting friends in TS to tell me if they heard the ripping noise or not. Everytime the setting was off, they heard the noise. Everytime it was on, my voice was as clear as a sunny day.
So in conclusion, to all those experiencing this issue, check that you have ENC enabled.
After a week of running the PC playing various games everything was working fine until suddenly the people on TS were telling me that they could hear a motor bike in the back ground when I spoke. At first I thought they were being idiots but eventually it got to the point where I realised there was actually a serious problem.
At this point a friend and I attempted to diagnose the problem where we found this specific forum thread. Now I started to worry that I had a faulty card and would have to RMA it. I tried everything, Moving the card to a better spot, Making an EMI shield out of cardboard, paper and aluminium foil. Nothing seemed to work.
Until finally at 12PM at night everyone on TS had left for sleep and yet I was still sitting there stressing my head off over the fact I may not get my money back from the shop I bought it, I found a nasty little setting that a) I didn't know it existed and b) Don't remember playing with or turning off.
I found this setting above to be turned off even though I had never touched it.. I never even knew it existed so I had no idea that it was preventing the EMI from coming through to the Mic.
and to prove it was this setting , the next morning I was literally toggleing it on and off and getting friends in TS to tell me if they heard the ripping noise or not. Everytime the setting was off, they heard the noise. Everytime it was on, my voice was as clear as a sunny day.
So in conclusion, to all those experiencing this issue, check that you have ENC enabled.
I have found a solution to fix the problem.
The source of the humming is the additional power suply of the sound card. The filter of high frequency is too weak. If the graphic card have a weak high frequency filter too, it sends high-frequency disturbances back to the power suply.
A solution is a ferrite core in the power suply close to the sound card. I wrap three windings arround the ferrite core and reduced the humming to a minimum till nothing.
Greetings, Spi
The source of the humming is the additional power suply of the sound card. The filter of high frequency is too weak. If the graphic card have a weak high frequency filter too, it sends high-frequency disturbances back to the power suply.
A solution is a ferrite core in the power suply close to the sound card. I wrap three windings arround the ferrite core and reduced the humming to a minimum till nothing.
Greetings, Spi
Jimz0r wrote:
I bought one of these cards for my new gaming rig consisting of 2 GTX 780's in SLI, The phoebus is sitting between the two of these cards and is highly exposed to the EMI that the cards give off.
After a week of running the PC playing various games everything was working fine until suddenly the people on TS were telling me that they could hear a motor bike in the back ground when I spoke. At first I thought they were being idiots but eventually it got to the point where I realised there was actually a serious problem.
At this point a friend and I attempted to diagnose the problem where we found this specific forum thread. Now I started to worry that I had a faulty card and would have to RMA it. I tried everything, Moving the card to a better spot, Making an EMI shield out of cardboard, paper and aluminium foil. Nothing seemed to work.
Until finally at 12PM at night everyone on TS had left for sleep and yet I was still sitting there stressing my head off over the fact I may not get my money back from the shop I bought it, I found a nasty little setting that a) I didn't know it existed and b) Don't remember playing with or turning off.
I found this setting above to be turned off even though I had never touched it.. I never even knew it existed so I had no idea that it was preventing the EMI from coming through to the Mic.
and to prove it was this setting , the next morning I was literally toggleing it on and off and getting friends in TS to tell me if they heard the ripping noise or not. Everytime the setting was off, they heard the noise. Everytime it was on, my voice was as clear as a sunny day.
So in conclusion, to all those experiencing this issue, check that you have ENC enabled.
I don't see this option , how do i enable it ? The humming is driving me crazy !!!
Jimz0r wrote:
I bought one of these cards for my new gaming rig consisting of 2 GTX 780's in SLI, The phoebus is sitting between the two of these cards and is highly exposed to the EMI that the cards give off.
After a week of running the PC playing various games everything was working fine until suddenly the people on TS were telling me that they could hear a motor bike in the back ground when I spoke. At first I thought they were being idiots but eventually it got to the point where I realised there was actually a serious problem.
At this point a friend and I attempted to diagnose the problem where we found this specific forum thread. Now I started to worry that I had a faulty card and would have to RMA it. I tried everything, Moving the card to a better spot, Making an EMI shield out of cardboard, paper and aluminium foil. Nothing seemed to work.
Until finally at 12PM at night everyone on TS had left for sleep and yet I was still sitting there stressing my head off over the fact I may not get my money back from the shop I bought it, I found a nasty little setting that a) I didn't know it existed and b) Don't remember playing with or turning off.
I found this setting above to be turned off even though I had never touched it.. I never even knew it existed so I had no idea that it was preventing the EMI from coming through to the Mic.
and to prove it was this setting , the next morning I was literally toggleing it on and off and getting friends in TS to tell me if they heard the ripping noise or not. Everytime the setting was off, they heard the noise. Everytime it was on, my voice was as clear as a sunny day.
So in conclusion, to all those experiencing this issue, check that you have ENC enabled.
Thanks this worked for me 🙂
