Noise/humming in microphone while playing games

[Estatus]

I've experienced strange static-like or humming noise coming from my end when talking while playing games. Friends have complained before when speaking over ventrilo so I decided to record how it sounded like when the mic was on during a game session, and indeed I heard this annoying noise in the background. I returned my first card for a new one, but the issue was consistent. Tried both the drivers on the CD as well as the latest drivers from the ASUS page. I've also tired moving the sound card to the slot farthest away from the GPU card since I've been advised by the support at my store as well as on other forums to do so as there can be interference between the soundcard and the graphics card; but this boggles me since, not only is this an expensive high-end ROG sound card, but there is also a case built on the card itself to protect it from any kind of interference from other devices on the computer.

To listen to how it sounds like visit this video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3E-uhY-TJ4&feature=colike

[Jognt]

That kinda negates the purpose of the Mic-In, also I have a pretty good analog Mic :/.
Besides that the sound I hear through the speakers/Mic-In can also be faintly heard coming from the card itself.

[Doco]

Recently had this same issue myself, very annoying problem where a loud hissing noise would appear from my microphone when launching a game, tried a few solution and searched google for a solution (which brought me here), seeing as this thread is quite long I'm guessing a few people wouldnt mind trying the fix that worked for me - right click the mic options under ther phoebus software and change the sample rate to 48 Khz / 24 bits - I kid you not, this fix my audio mic buzz 🙂

[Solbeamer]

Dozens of people here having sound noise problems. (only read 2 pages, sorry :P) All connected to the graphics cards and the place in the pc of it (same brand; ASUS)

I had the same issue. Driving a friend of mine insane by the chopper sound coming out of my pc by teamspeak. Always ragequiting cause of the noise :P.

Reading here (today I just went to google to see if anybody had solutions for the problem) I saw an ignored remark about painting nail polish on pc components.
Ignored?
Well....not by me! (I like silly. Often the silly hold all the wisdom :P)
My brain was like: AHA! Airborn Interfering unwanted transmition thingee!! Insulating the guilty party by smart dude!

Reading further more about distance between GTX cards and the rest of the pc only strengthened my believes one should not have overlooked the nailpolish solution. But I had another gettho solution.....
These crappy antistatic bags you get with every pc component! They JAM interference!

Nothing to lose, and glory to gain!

So I jammed a folded jamming bag into my pc (all the way to the back between little components to be sure it shielded all!), shielding the GTX card from the rest of the pc, and asked on ts to my friend if he stilled heared the warchopper sound.
.....IT WAS GONE!!! 😄 😄

''Victory for Sylvanas!!''

😄

[hiong]

i don't see any Asus component in your system...

[Florin]

You can short something with that in there, if i`m not mistaking that bag can conduct electricity, also you don`t have a Phoebus inside or anything else. Till now i find the fix with removing the metal bracket from the sound card the best.

[Solbeamer]

Florin wrote:
You can short something with that in there, if i`m not mistaking that bag can conduct electricity, also you don`t have a Phoebus inside or anything else. Till now i find the fix with removing the metal bracket from the sound card the best.

Ohm meter gave me 1.000 at 1/2 mm distance and less.
So 100% current resistance. Shorting impossible.
Where did you get the info/idea it (a protecting bag for fragile electronics transport) would attract (made possible) unwanted current flow on the way to the customer (or even in the factory)?
Why would anybody make a bag like that for this PC stuff? 😛

But you go with your solution. I know mine works.

Only thing left to banktest is warmth holding/absorbing abilities, and maybe needing warmth bouncing sheets. (white or reflecting -yes, I understand the metal thing :P-)

[crookedview]

I had the same noise problem with my Strix RAID Pro card and in the end it turned out that the screw holding the bracket in place was too tight.

Loosened the screw just a bit and the noise went away.

To further combat the issue, I removed the metal bracket from the sound card and used some Plasti-Dip spray to insulate the metal bracket from the case.