New motherboard, sound issues.

Hi friends.
This is my very first post on this community, so before I start... HELLO! 
Let the sad story of carzo begin...
I bought a motherboard MSI z97 Gaming 5 in Spain and now I live in China.
I set it up very carefully and good (despite it was my first built computer!  ).
However, when I ran my OS I could feel that the sound was very bad, distorsioned, it sounded like an angry robot.
Firstly, I checked everything: drivers, pins, different operating systems, clean jacks (both of them, frontal and backside perform very badly),  build the computer again from the very beginning... but nothing made my sound sound good. I spent so many hours doing all this   that I almost jumped out the window. 
Then, I tried the USB port, and VOILA! Sound was good! So... Okay: Since MSI warranty is not global and it will be more expensive to send the motherboard back to Spain and get it repaired, I will just buy a Logitech G430 USB headphones and a USB adapter for my speakers and I'm good to go. Forget about the golden jacks, who wants that anyway. Let's pay more money for USB stuff!
LOL NOPE. I was dumb enough to believe this, but even when I am listening to audio through USB I found out that my stereo is working bad. The left speaker sounds very low, and it doesn't even reproduce some sounds.
However, 7.1 sounds good as far as I can test. Not sure if it's working 100% good but I think so. By the way, I can enable 7.1 from my Logitech headphones drivers. I'm not an audio expert, but at least I am not deaf from the left side...
So here are my questions, dear friends:
1- Why is this happening to me?
2- Shall I just send the motherboard to fix despite I don't have warranty? Will it be very expensive? I think that the problem is only with the stereo printed circuit on the motherboard, but I dont know anything about electronics so who know? ha!
4- Will it be worth to just buy a strong sound card like sound blaster X? Or if I do that maybe I can still get the same problem?
3- This is not a question, but thanks for reading this! Sorry for my bad inglish

hi friends! 
the sad story of carzo has come to an end... a good one!
Somehow I knew that the problem was in the upper part of the case, where the front USB/jacks are... Since my friend suggested me not to use the frontal jacks because they can make my fancy headphones explode, I never did (just once when I spotted the initial problem).
Today I tried my headphones in there and put some pressure on the jack and it clicked.... 
So yeah, I've wasted a month in which I could have been enjoying this awesome computer trying to find out what was the problem, going to the official customer service and stuff. That makes me feel dumb, but still...
Everything works good now, and that makes carzo very happy! I still dont get how it can be affecting the backside jack since the HD audio cable was not connected at all... anyway, I dont care anymore. What's good is good!
THANKS TO:
StaticFX: for telling me the funny story about the wash machine and encouraging me to go to the customer service, which got me a brand new motherboard for free even when global warranty doesnt cover it. I also got some stickers and SATA wires for free 
Seadog: teach me stuff about bend pins
Nichrome: helping me diagnose the problem with many useful posts.
Somehow I want to thank this forum, so even if my knowledge about the matter sux, I will stay around to see if some guy gets the same problems I have, and of course learn from you guys!
Until the next chapter! 

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