Charlie Cullen

Funnily enough that seems to have solved it at least for now, can I ask why? I'm both genuinely confused and interested hahahaha

I'll see if I can find one

I've tried it in a USB 2.0 port on my mobo and it persisted

Done that, still here. It's only CPU and not GPU weirdly. The fact it's stuttering and not fizzing leads me more towards the fact my cpu is pushing it out the way than a power issue.

I plugged it into a different room and if anything it's actually got noticeably worse.

Windows 10

I'll have a go and get back to you

Would you recommend trying plugging in my entire rig into another room just to try?

It's always been there from what I can tell. I used to have an M-audio M-track 2x2m but I changed it yesterday for a UMC202HD to try and solve the issue but it is worse if anything.

I can't plug it into a different loop as it's a USB interface so doesn't have separate power. What would cause my pc to be ungrounded? The only thing that steered me away from a grounding issue is that's stuttering like my pc isn't keeping up as oppose to interference.

Hi guys, I have had an issue for several months where my Mic and Speakers/headphones stutter/spit when I'm loading my CPU. I even today changed my audio interface to try and solve it in case it was hardware and it's actually worse. I currently have a Behringer UMC202HD, it's got the latest driver installed but I tried older ones as well with no luck. I've tried every USB port including my front panel and have messed with the buffer size etc. It has become slightly better after setting windows to prioritise my audio driver over other programs, but still creates an extremely annoying cracking and popping in my input/output. It can happen under any load from 50% to 100% in games for example, and audio will even stutter slightly when I open programs like chrome, in sync with the slight rise in CPU usage. Using Aida 64 I was able to determine it only actually happens when the cache is stressed, as oppose to the CPU itself, as when I took the cache out the test it stopped. If anyone has any idea how to solve this it would be much appreciated, as having crackly audio in games is horrible and my friends get pissed off at my mic crackling as well.

The i3 with any card will have these results. GTA doesn't like dual cores, hyperthreaded or not. My GPU remains at about 60% usage on high whereas my CPU is at 100 all the time.

Constant 60 when not in City and driving fast. Drops to 55-50 when driving/flying fast through city.

Mine stays under 55 degrees under 100% load, and unless you really push it it stays pretty quiet. I also have mine set to not even switch it's fans on till 40 degrees so unless gaming it is completely silent. You can also overclock it a bit but to be honest the stock clock is on the higher end of 480s already.

Yeah, GTA is one I already have, on online the i3 does bottleneck quite a bit, hence why I'm asking for other games.