Hello,
I recently bought a asus xonar essence stx and when I installed it into one of the pci slots I noticed that there was crackling and when I loaded into a game there was an ear-splitting whining noise. I moved the card around on the motherboard and found that putting it in the top 1x pci slot removed the crackling and whining. The problem I'm having is I have an avermedia live gamer HD and it has an audio pass through that I can't use because it has to go in a lower pci slot which causes the audio to crackle and whine. I believe the problem is coming from my corsair AX850 because as I moved the card down towards the power supply, the noise got louder. Is there a solution to this problem or do I have to go buy a new power supply. If so what would be a good power supply to get that doesn't have this annoying whining noise.
Thanks