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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Do you guys run dedicated sound cards? I always find the sound from MOBO's to be a bit flat? And this new rig has the faintest buzzing noise when I'm moving the mouse around, kinda weird.
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I don't know what you mean by "the sound of a MOBO is flat"... sounds like placebo effect since these kind of electronics are fairly simple and decades matured, and you're probably not driving these things anywhere near the limits where you'd hear an issue.
But yes, some mobos will definitely develop noise which passes through to the audio outputs. It really depends on the shielding implementation. If I had to make a guess, you've got a power supply that's not operating to spec, but it's just that, a guess.
The best way to isolate that kind of noise is using good ol' optical cables to an external DAC as even USB and HDMI can carry UHF ringing (speaking from experience). If that's the route you wanna go, I strongly recommend looking into the stuff from JDS Labs (The OL DAC, for instance). Amazing bang for buck and built on sound engineering principles, not marketing voodoo.
All that said if you are looking for a true sound card, the Lynx AES16e is extremely powerful. Probably overkill, but then again I think soundcards are overkill in general in a non recording setting.