So now the question is: What sound card/adapter should I buy? Since I will still be using the STX for the headphones, it shouldn't be too expensive and focus only on the output quality.You can also watch our video review of the ModMic 5 by simply clicking on the Play button in the middle of the title picture. SO, the only simple solution I can come up with is to simply buy a small, cheap, external USB sound card (USB to 3.5mm adapter) to plug the microphone into, since this should (in my theory at least) mean that the graphics card won't interfere with the signal.

It works, and it doesn't get the interference, but it makes the sound quality of the microphone really bad, and it's also very quiet, which is the same problem I had when I used my old Siberia V2 headset in it before I had a sound card. By the way, my PSU is an AX750, so it's not low-quality.Īnother thing I've tried is to re-enable the integrated sound card on the Motherboard and simply plug in the ModMic into that. And made sure not a lot of other cables run close to it.Made sure to connect it with a separate Molex power cable.Unconnected the front panel connector cable from the sound card.Tried using the front panel connectors as well as the sound card's.Made sure it's in the PCI-E slot furthest away from the graphics card.I've already done all this to try and reduce interference to the sound card, I've: Even worse, no-one seems to have found a working solution to it, so right now I'm stuck with using my USB PS3 Eye Camera as a microphone as I did before I bought the ModMic, and it works just fine except for the bad sound quality, since it's USB (digital) so it doesn't get any interference. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an universal problem with the STX itself, despite it having a fancy EMI shield on it, which doesn't seem to work at all for the microphone.

I looked up this problem online and as it turns out, I'm far from the only one with this issue. This makes it impossible to talk to people on Skype and in-game since they always hear an annoying buzz in the background when I talk (I don't hear it in my own headphones).

So every time I play a game or do anything else GPU intensive, the microphone gets a lot of really loud & annoying static noise that changes pitch with the framerate. The sound card picks up A LOT of electromagnetic interference from my graphics card (ASUS GTX 680 DirectCUII). I recently bought an Antlion ModMic 4.0 that has been working great, except that I noticed that my sound card (ASUS Xonar Essence STX) has a huge problem.

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