Plan to upgrade, but take a look at this.

[RadeonProVega]

n/m

 

[Caring1]

*wanders through*
Nothing to see here folks.

 

[RadeonProVega]

*wanders through*
Nothing to see here folks.

lol it was more of me having trouble with a bottleneck, trying to pinpoint the problem. I just ordered a Quad core for my LGA 755, so i shouldn't have anymore trouble come next week. ATM, the bottleneck i am having isn't too serious, its only affecting certain games and some flash browser games and i get these sound cracking issue, static sounds, but overall its not that bad. I just assume the e6600 can't keep up with my GTX 550 ti. So all is well next week!

 

[hat]

Err... bottlenecking issues won't cause sound crackling. You've got an issue elsewhere. It's possible your audio might be clipping. Try turning down your volume (in Windows) to around 40% or so.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Err... bottlenecking issues won't cause sound crackling. You've got an issue elsewhere. It's possible your audio might be clipping. Try turning down your volume (in Windows) to around 40% or so.

I'm not sure what it is exactly, I'm just guessing its because the e6600 is too slow to keep up with the card. Because i had a quad before, q6600 using my 550 ti and i never had this issue. When I'm playing music at the desktop, and i hit refresh, i hear some static, and the music will quickly stutter or dragged. When i have music playing and i open up steam lol, steam gets really slow and the music will start dragging and crackling. When i play browser games by flash ( which is crap anyway ) the framerate is horrible with massive stuttering and sound crackling with static. It only affects certain games, because Path of exlie for example at dx11 max 1400x900 i get 44-60fps easy. Golden source 60 easy.

Lowering the sound doesn't do anything, i don't have the sound high anyway. Once i get my quad next week, i will see did it fix the issue, if for some reason it didn't, i know its the MB. I do however get no sound issues unit i install the nvidia divers, meaning until the gpu is active. without the gpu, the sound issues are gone. I ran some test though

 

[hat]

I'm not sure how that could be. Even though an e6600 is really old today, it was a stellar chip in its time. I can't imagine why it would struggle playing music and loading Steam. You already have a new chip on the way, so try that as you will... but I wouldn't be surprised if the problems persist. You may want to try ordering a sound card. If I remember right, those SoundMAX systems weren't the greatest...

 

[RadeonProVega]

I'm not sure how that could be. Even though an e6600 is really old today, it was a stellar chip in its time. I can't imagine why it would struggle playing music and loading Steam. You already have a new chip on the way, so try that as you will... but I wouldn't be surprised if the problems persist. You may want to try ordering a sound card. If I remember right, those SoundMAX systems weren't the greatest...

Funny thing my sound creative blaster card just died it seems lol. But i have a Diamond Xtreme PCI card, and it works and even though i still get these weird static stuttering sound issues, its not bad like it was and recording is much smoother in games. So it did help a bit. But i still also get a weird bottleneck when playing flash browser games and a few older titles. So i will report back once i get my new CPU and let you know how did it fix all these issues. Peace

 

[RadeonProVega]

Alright i got my new CPU, fresh install windows 7, the 3 games which i couldn't run using the e6600, i still have the same issues and i still get sound static, crackling nosies, when running those 3 games, dragon-blood browser, crush online steam, and omikron nomad soul. I did the latency test each time i added a difference piece of hardware, its not the sound, its the GPU that causes the latency issues which i believe is causing the sound issues, but why is it only affecting certain games? i don't get it. Another thing, i remember running a q6600 and the same card, same os, using a different motherboard i never had this issue. So the only thing i can think of which is causing the problems is the motherboard, its old as hell anyway, 2006 and i bought it from a thrift store and it was dirty, dusty. So i guess i will buy a new motherboard, a different more to update to date one and see how goes. i STILL do not understand why its only affecting certain games, mostly older ones becasue path of exlie i get a 45-60fps easily at max settings, so i don't get it. And i haven't been able to figure out what the problem is , unless its the motherboard. And adding the GPU GTX 550 Just causes issues, but again why only certain games lol.

 

[sneekypeet]

@u2konline please revise OP if you wish this thread to carry on.

 

[RadeonProVega]

nah you can closed this post. or delete it, i probably just need a new mb, but I'm just going to play what i can and next month just buy a prebuilt i5 computer on ebay, i found a few for under 100 bucks.
peace