A little tip, with the X-Fi's and new mobo

Question

I've asked around and tested some. And it seems like if the mainboard have PCI-Ex6 and 2PCI's or less, the sound got a tendence to crackle and so on. I've suspected this, as i've used my Creative X-Fi with some mobo's.
(I don't know if this is the problem, but it might me a good thing for you people, who are planning to buy a new mobo.)?System Was an AMD which had an EpoX 8NPA-SLi. (2PCi-Ex6, 2PCi)Sound worked very good. (Windows XP x64 Proffesional.)?System 2 Was Intel with Asus P5VD2-VM (PCi-Ex6, PCi-Ex, 2PCi)Sound crackled a lot and was unhealthy for ears. (Windows XP x64 Proffesional.)?System 3 Was the same Intel, but with Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA (PCi-Ex6[which infact is running 4x, but is looking like a usual x6], 3PCi)Sound worked good (Windows XP x64 Proffesional, For Vista The Sub, won't work cause of drivers and programs.)?System 4 will be tested soon. Waiting for a gigabyte mobo, which is supposed to be changed with the Asus. (PCi-Ex6, 3PCi-Ex, 3PCi)?According to some buddies on Irc, their sound works good. But no one have less ports then my system 2 had. (Most of em got 2PCi-Ex6, PCi-Ex, 2 PCi)?I can't say that my teory is worth anything, as it might be something else causing this crackle.But i think that the "IRQ"'s are different cause of the number of PCi ports on the mobo. (Anyways, i've hope this can be useful and just wrote this to try help. And i don't know how much of this has been said before and if it doesn't help out, im sorry.)?Btw, im not working at creative, i've just feel sad about these really great soundcards, which seem to malfunction in some systems.

Answer 1

I Installed the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mainboard today. (Very tricky to install, especially if you get mad at the installation of cables etc.)?Anyways. I've tested the mainboard in one of the games i had terrible "crackling" in, with the Asus mainboard. And after 20minutes i've concluded that this one seems "crackle" free too. I don't know, but it seems like all mainboards i've had with many PCi slots (of all types, PCi-Ex6, PCi-Ex4, PCi-Ex and PCi.) doesn't have this crackling problem. Conclusion: Most of the mainboards, which was crackle free, had 3PCi's (Usual ones.)?Hope this will help some of you people. (The Gigabyte mainboard was tested under Windows Vista Buisness, without crackle, but with not so good working drivers, so quality of the sound is still not too good.)