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

[Florin]

In the latest driver in Sonic Studio Pro you have Noise Gate and perfect voice to reduce that humming, but i feel you .. for the price of this card they sure didn`t test the mic in quality ...

And you will get about no support from anybody at Asus, it`s like this card does not even exists for them any more. But people complain about the same support from Creative cards also ...kinda sad.

[GoNz0-]

While it may reduce noise between speaking it still allows the noise while I spoke when using a headset. So noise gate is quite frankly crap.

[kenpachi_b]

Hi all, i've the same problem, i cant isolate the card in the case bcs i dont have enough space, but its impossible use the drive of Motherboard just for the mic and For music/video etc the sound card?

[Undertoker]

Well I'm glad I had a look first before buying a card
I can't belive Asus and especially ROG put their name on a product that does this and don't address it.
It's disgusting and I won't now be buying one
Thank you guys for the heads up

[GoNz0-]

Undertoker wrote:
Well I'm glad I had a look first before buying a card
I can't belive Asus and especially ROG put their name on a product that does this and don't address it.
It's disgusting and I won't now be buying one
Thank you guys for the heads up

I went with a creative ZXR but it also picks up noise from the GTX980, At least the noise reduction takes care of it unlike Asus software.

[Florin]

The mic on the Phoebus doesn`t have AGC under the specified location.

[Jognt]

Quite an older thread by now, but I wanted to voice my findings too. (Xonar DX)
I started having this weird FPS related buzzing after buying a GTX980 to replace my GTX670 SLI setup.

After a lot of testing I found that the problem was gone with my GTX670 cards and an older ATi HD4850 card.
As soon as I place the GTX980 in the system the buzzing returns. If I listen VERY closely to the card I can also hear the same frequency-changing-buzz coming from the GTX980 itself.

I think the poor components on the GTX980 STRIX are having an effect on (poor) components of the Xonar.

I returned the GTX980, the store is testing it with my audio card at the moment. I hope they will replace the GTX980 for me since the Xonar is quite a bit older by now and the issue seems to be primarily caused by the new videocard.

[Florin]

The soundcard should be shielded from such things but it`s not 🙂 Just look at the onboard sound card, that one is not affected.

[Jognt]

Florin wrote:
The soundcard should be shielded from such things but it`s not 🙂 Just look at the onboard sound card, that one is not affected.

So which is 'broken'? On the one hand I did not have this issue with older GPU's so that would lead to: GPU = broken.
On the other hand the issue is often not noticed (apparently) with other audio solutions so that would lead to: Soundcard = broken.

Which is it :S because in the meantime I can't record any videos with microphone audio and I can't bear the buzz that I hear through my main speakers while gaming. This joke cost me hundreds of euros for crying out loud 😞

[Florin]

Sound cards are very sensitive to interference, inside a computer there are plenty of stuff going on to induce interference to your sound. The CPU and GPU make an astonishing number of calculations every second. Best way to have the best sound experience is to put the sound card as far away from the insides of your PC (best way scenario).

This is why i`m using a simple usb mic instead of the Phoebus`s mic input. In rest the card works perfect for me.