This has been bugging me for a while now. Any time there's any sort of continuous loop going on within a program, I can hear a buzzing though my speakers and headphones if I crank the volume up. What's odd, is different things produce different sounds.
Examples:
- I keep Steam running constantly in my systray. Whenever someone on my friends list starts playing a game or sends me a message, a small notification slides up from the systray displaying the info, pauses for a second, then slides back down. During the sliding processes, it creates a buzz/hum through my speakers.
- When I minimize or maximize a window in Windows, there's a faint high-pitched buzz (almost like a gnat flying in your ear lol).
- When playing CPU intensive games, there's a constant hum/buzz which changes pitch depending on what I do in the game.
I'm using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard with onboard Realtek ALC888 audio chipset. And also, when I built this system, I had 2 options how to hook up the front panel audio.. regulard and HD. I went with HD if this makes any difference.
I wasn't sure whether to put this under Windows or hardware, but I stuck it in hardware because I don't think it really has anything to do with my OS. Has anyone ever experienced this before? It's incredibly annoying. Does it sound like it's just crappy audio hardware?
