Getting Audio Distortion With Sound Card After Installing New Wi-Fi Card

[jiyeon]

Hi, I just recently installed my new Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I soundcard, it's an 802.11ac Wi-Fi card with Bluetooth 5.0.

 

I have my PCIe lanes in the following config:

1x - N/A
16x - GTX 1060
1x - N/A
8x - N/A
1x - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Fx

1x - Gigabyte GC WI-Fi Card

 

I use to have it in this format:

 

1x - N/A
16x - GTX 1060
1x - N/A
8x - N/A
1x - Asus Wi-Fi card

1x - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Fx

 

My audio keeps distorting and dipping when plugging my ATH-M50x into the sound card's 3.5mm jack.

 

I should note, that no issues occurred before installing my new sound card, and that on-board audio remains fine.

 

Update: I swapped my sound cardback to the lower-most PCIe slot, and distortion still occurs.

[r2724r16]

1 hour ago, seoz said:

Getting Audio Distortion With Sound Card After Installing New Wi-Fi Card

1 hour ago, seoz said:

Hi, I just recently installed my new Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I soundcard, it's an 802.11ac Wi-Fi card with Bluetooth 5.0.

1 hour ago, seoz said:

I should note, that no issues occurred before installing my new sound card, and that on-board audio remains fine.

I'm really confused right now....

 

To be clear, are you saying that you've been getting audio distortion ever since you installed your new sound card or your new Wi-Fi card?

[jiyeon]

10 minutes ago, Geography said:

I'm really confused right now....

 

To be clear, are you saying that you've been getting audio distortion ever since you installed your new sound card or your new Wi-Fi card?

I had my sound card installed prior, and only started getting audio distortion after I got my new Wi-Fi card installed.

[jiyeon]

Well, I've figured it out. It was this setting on the Sound Blaster software.

 

 

When I switched my soundcard to another PCIe lane, it must've reset the settings, thus causing the distortion when it defaulted to the '3D' surround option.

 

I'm now using Stereo and no more distortion is occurring.