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This projector looks amazing! It would be great to have one, as I live in a tiny apartment. The lens and mirror assembly look quite intricate and it is one of the few short throw projectors that supports 1080p and 3D, me likey.

OK.... Hmmm.... OK..... Here's what I found out having contacted ASUS and speaking to one of their technicians. First of all, there was some kind of planetary alignment that allowed me to be right on my statement about the noises being digital in nature and having to do more with drivers than EM interference. As it turns out both Windows 10 and 8.1 do whatever the heck they want with drivers (Especially Windows 10). I mean, try It out, uninstall any of your devices, wait a minute, and you'll see it installed again without you even asking it to do so. What is worst, is that Windows will completely ignore the official drivers you just installed on the machine in favor of their drivers, and yes, they're the same driver, the same version, same signature, and it still installs the version from Microsoft driver servers... bummer. So here's what to do: 1) Disable Windows automatic driver installation (Found under "System"). 2) Go to Device Manager, and uninstall the Realtek Sound Card. 3) Refresh the page, and as fast as you can, right click on the new unknown device, and click "Update Drivers". 4) My recommendation would be to install the driver found inside the ROG DVD that came with the mobo. 5) Optional: Disable Windows Fast Boot from the Power Options (this will sacrifice a second or 2 of boot speed for the sake of reloading all drivers at startup). 6) Restart 7) Enjoy Unfortunately, that fix may not work for ya'll out there. So here's another alternate fix: This fix will sacrifice Nvidia Shadow Play functionality for the sake of your Audio Card. 1) Disable Windows automatic driver installation (Found under "System"). 2) Go to Device Manager, and disable ALL Nvidia related Audio drivers. 6) Restart 7) Enjoy If after following these steps you still can't get the audio working properly, there's still a solution: 1) Buy a proper sound card.

Thanks for your contribution CapricaBuccaneers. It is really weird tho, I ended up resetting the Nvidia video drivers trough device manager, and that solved the problem temporally. I haven't been experiencing the noise issues this entire session, and I played Crysis 3 at maxed out settings to put some strain on the card and test the EM interference theory. This alone, and the fact that the noises were digital in nature and not analogue, make me think this is either a driver problem, or a problem regarding the audio switching relays inside the Supreme Fx chip. It would be wise to contact ASUS and let them know about this problem.

Hi Naeaes! Thanks for your advice, I'll update my bio soon. Both rear and front audio jacks emit the same noise. Something tells me it may not be EM interference because it's present also after the GPU cools down and isn't in use anymore. I did think about it being EM, but the way it behaves is too consistent, a noise can be heard every 3 seconds, and it is a digital type noise, not analogue. I will proceed to disable the Nvidia driver completely and also test removing and switching the card PCI slot to see what happens.

Good evening, wise peoples of the Linus Tech Tip Forums. I come here with problems regarding my latest build. CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz GPU: GeForce GTX 970 (reference) MOBO: ASUS Maximus VIII Gene RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR4 The problem is simple, the audio output of the ASUS Maximus VIII Gene motherboard (Supreme FX) is having lots of problems, primarily creating noise and interference while audio plays. The noise comes every 3 or so seconds, it is constant and it never stops. Restarting the system to reload the drivers seems to work, at least for a while. Immediately after launching any game or resource intensive application, the noises come back. If instead of restarting I shut down the machine and then turn it back on the next morning, the noise doesn't go away (This may be because of Windows "Hybrid Shutdown" feature in which drivers don't reload when shutting down). I have reinstalled both the Realtek audio drivers and the chipset drivers several times, done it with both the drivers provided with the motherboard and the updated ones available on the website. I am not very fond of reinstalling the bios, especially because I fail to see what kind of relationship it has with the on board audio drivers failing. I think this may have something to do with the video card drivers or Nvidia's recording and playback audio drivers. Disabling the video card audio drivers didn't do much, but there is a correlation between it and the audio failing because the audio usually starts emitting noise after launching a resource intensive application like a game. I would appreciate any help and I'd like to know if any of you have had a similar problem, Thanks!

You gotta admit, the Phanteks is much better looking than the Cooler Master (Cooler Master Silencio 352 looks nice, no side window tho) I guess that an ASUS Strix GTX970 would work well enough inside the Enthoo EVOLV iTX, as it uses the more efficient cooler. It's strange how the Cooler Master cases are smaller and manage to fit a mATX motherboard... they are quite deep tho and are not optimized for water cooling and cable management...

Thanks guys! Well, i do like the looks of the ASUS Z97I-Plus, but i don't know how well it performs for gaming and light workstation use (by light i mean Adobe Suite and some simple 3D rendering) but i guess RAM and CPU performance are the key here. I just don't want the mobo dying on me because i threw Battlefield 4 at it at 1080p (let's say, with an i7-4790K and a GTX970).

<RANT> I like ASUS, they have quite an awesome variety of products, but i think it was quite retarded to increase the elevation of the ASUS MAXIMUS VII IMPACT motherboard. It is an mITX board, which means it is meant to be installed in small, space efficient enclosures. And yes, having the caps on a separate board is A-OK from a engineering point of view, it actually makes a lot of sense, but... by god, at least make them the same height as the I/O ports.... </RANT> Anyway... here's my question: I want to build inside the Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX case. Will the ASUS MAXIMUS VII IMPACT motherboard and a standard 240mm AIO water cooler like the Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX (if mounted on the top of the case) fit together?? There seems to be just enough clearance... but there is no way of knowing just by eyeballing it... Alternatively, could you guys recommend any other decent mITX mobos for the build? i was thinking about the ASUS Z97I-PLUS motherboard, but i'm not that sure about it. I don't plan to OC a whole lot, I might not even OC at all. Thanks for your answers.