Chak Mlaxpin
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Sort of. My microphone is a USB mic so that's plugged into the back of my PC, so they're both powered from the same socket in a way. As for the mixer that's plugged into my bench power supply currently, although in my final revision I plan to add a female USB-B which I can connect to my PC using a cable to power it. Edit: Also, if it was a ground loop wouldn't this be a 50Hz sine hum from the mains rather than what it sounds like as-is? Or can a ground loop come from a DC supply too?
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I recently built a mixer for my computer so that I can take the HD audio out from the motherboard and mix it with the low-latency/live feedback from my Blue Yeti's audio output. Prior to this I was just using the Yeti as a USB DAC, however I recently upgraded my computer and the built-in DAC in my motherboard is of a much higer resolution (32 bit 384kHz as opposed to 16 bit 44kHz). Needless to say I built my mixer and tested it and all with other devices and it sounds great. No noise, and it drives my headphones as I hoped. However, the issue arises when I plug in both my microphone and my motherboard's audio out at the same time. The two in combination seem to make a strange sound that I can only really describe as an electronic buzz (the sound of which can be found here). I can say with confidence that it's not the mixer, as I've tested it with a variety of devices plugged in and it seems to function as anticipated. The noise seems to come in only when I plug the microphone in alongside the computer. I feel pretty sure that the microphone's output is the cause of the buzz, but when I plug my headphones alone into the microphone I don't hear anything. And the computer's audio out is completely silent when nothing is playing. Does anybody know what could be done about this or have any experience with a similar issue?
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@Rasbir Singh when you say 5-10%, are we talking mV here or actual percentage of original core voltage? Because I'm not sure what the original was but I can increase the actual core voltage itself by mV.
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I'm playing around with overclocking my GPU. I'm running a 970 and using MSI Afterburner for my overclocking. Using the Kombustor that's built in to benchmark, I'm getting about 1.5 artifacts per second (averaged out over a 10 minute period). Is this reasonable? Personally I'm not seeing anything on the screen, and they seem to disappear faster than the screen can update. The clocks I have it at currently are the core boosted by 175Mhz and the memory by 575MHz. I've known increasing the core voltage can help improve stability too, which is why I want to ask what would be reasonable increments to increase that by? At what level should I stop increasing the voltage? I'm also finding that the temperature tends to level out at ~72C so thermals aren't too much of an issue just yet. I'm quite new to overclocking really, which is why I'm asking here. In the future I plan to overclock my processor too but I'll get to that when the time comes (and also when I get around to getting a liquid solution for it hooked up). Any help is appreciated!
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@AskTJ Yeah that's what I was thinking, but at the same time I would have thought that a short would blow the fuse, or at least cause stability issues from a drop in output power from the PSU to the components themselves...
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@TheRealCanadianGamer yeah sorry I should have added, there's a lot of noise from the fan as the mic was in the direct path of the airflow out from the PSU, but there is an occasional buzz on top of that. Will edit post now.
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I recently built a new computer. All seems to be going swimmingly with it. However I have noticed occasionally an odd noise coming from the PSU itself. If you listen to the audio file there is an audible almost fizzing noise from time to time that can be hear. Now in all honesty to record this I had to put my microphone right next to the PSU and turn up the gain a bit, and given that my computer is under my desk it is inaudible most of the time. But I do occasionally hear it. Under any normal circumstance I probably wouldn't be too fussed but this is my first custom build and I'm still worried about having done something wrong or something breaking and blowing the whole system. The PSU I have is the Corsair CX750M, if that helps. I would like to overclock too which adds to my worry about this PSU, and I'm currently running my RAM overclocked from 2133MHz to 2666MHz using Gigabyte's EasyTune software (planning on seeing if I can push it any further too, but I don't think I'd like to risk it until I get this sorted out). Thanks! edit: forgot to add that the sound of the buzz or the fizz is on top of the sound of the fan. Sorry the only way I could get the microphone to pick it up was to put it in the direct path of the airflow out. Recording.m4a
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Motherboard installation help
Chak Mlaxpin replied to Chak Mlaxpin's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
@Crunchy DragonI think the issue is with the I/O shield. The installation guide that came with it shows it being inserted at an angle and sort of hooking the upper part of the shield in first but then the bottom part seems too big to then just clip through and fit... Edit: @bellabichon sorry I tagged the wrong person BC I'm an idiot and can't seem to delete it. Anywho if Crunchy Dragon or anyone else who said just put in a few screws is reading this I would have tried that but there's literally just one hole that is lined up, all the rest are out of wack. -
I recently got all the components needed for a new computer I'm building. This is the first time I've built my own computer, and I'm kind of worried about breaking things because they cost a lot of money. Anyway, all seems to have been going fine so far. CPU and cooler in, RAM installed, that's all good. However I have now gone to put my motherboard into the case and I'm not sure it's quite working. The motherboard itself is the Auros X470 Gaming 7 and the issue I'm having is that the holes on the board for screwing it in place don't seem to quite match with the standoffs in the case. The standoffs are in the right place for an ATX board, but when placing the motherboard in some of them seem to be a millimetre or so off. Having done some googling I've found you're meant to install the I/O shield before putting in the motherboard, however on this particular board it seems to be screwed in to the board itself and I can't find any instructions that quite say what to do in this circumstance. I'm really slightly panicked from this and I could really do with some guidance from someone with experience in the matter right now... Edit: if anyone who hasn't already commented is reading this right now please help I've been at this for over an hour 20 and I've gotten nowhere
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I'm looking to upgrade my computer sometime soon. I'm trying to decide on a motherboard and have chosen to go with one of the Gigabyte X470 series motherboards. I'm currently a bit stuck on a decision on which one though. I've found two that are both of interest (the X470 AORUS Ultra Gaming and the X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi) however beyond one having WiFi connectivity I'm not sure why the differences really are. If it is just that one has WiFi then I'd prefer to go with the cheaper board, but I don't want to go with that decision to realise the more expensive one had more features. Both boards are linked below: AORUS Ultra Gaming: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07CG3XJ6F/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=AUWMZRMCN1SVB&psc=1 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07BXQHGVY/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1 If someone could give me a hand with this it would be much appreciated!
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Single stick of RAM or double?
Chak Mlaxpin replied to Chak Mlaxpin's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Okay cool, so the buses are in fact connected in parallel then rather than each stick being on the same one (or some other bs relating to it being faster)? Got it. 2*8GB>1*16GB. Thanks! -
I'm planning on building a new PC soon with the Ryzen 5 2600X as the processor. My current computer has 8GB of DDR3, so of course that means that I will have to buy new DDR4 RAM for my system. I'm looking to use 16GB of ram, however I was wondering if there was any benefit to having two 8GB sticks instead of a single 16GB stick. Looking at cost, the price difference between two sticks and a single one of the same capacity is negligible so I'm not too worried about that. So would there be any benefit for me choosing one over the other? My common sense is telling me that having two lower capacity sticks running in what is in essence parallel would be faster, but then again I have no idea how RAM communicates with the main processor outside of the basics of the Harvard and Von Neumann architecture types.
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If budget really isn't an issue for you, I'd recommend looking into the Phantom series of speakers by Devialet. But that's if you really, really have no budget. You'll see why if you look into them.
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DIY Speaker Project (2*40mm Tweeters, 1*70mm Woofer)
Chak Mlaxpin replied to Chak Mlaxpin's topic in Audio
The tweeters are perfect, however the subwoofer is a little on the large size in both size and price. Would you be able to recommend something a little smaller in those categories? -
Hello! I'm planning on building a speaker and as the title suggests I need some help finding some of the actual speakers. Normally I would just do some research and find it myself, but I'm building the speaker out of a gas mask I picked up a while ago at a second hand store and need the speaker parts themselves to fit into where the filters and whatever else goes on the outside of a gas mask would've gone. So what I need, as the title suggests, is one woofer that is ≤70mm in diameter and two tweeters that are ≤40mm in diameter. I'm not looking for anything too expensive (which I'm not sure on what classifies as that yet as this is the first type of project like this I've done) but sound quality is of relative importance. I'm currently residing in the UK so distributors here would be preferable to keep shipping down, however I'm willing to purchase from elsewhere if there are better options available. Thanks! -Chak
