Sound distortion with Audigy

Hi all
First off, I have looked at the FAQ's and tried just about everything except a reformat.
I just bought a Sound Blaster Audigy SE card for a budget spec PC. The rough specs are:
AMD Sempron 2600+
ASRock K8 Upgrade-689 motherboard (supposedly with 7.ch onboard AC'97 audio)
52mb ddr ram
ASUS 9250 graphics card (64mb)
When i first put the PC together, the sound did have some distortion when booting up (the windows startup sound was slightly distorted/crackly) and other distortion when other programs were loading and i was playing music at the same time. I assumed this was normal for a relati'vely budget PC.
However, I decided to get the problem solved by buying a sound card to improve the sound quality, but after installing the Audigy SE (and downloading the latest drivers), the distortion has got worse, and almost any program that uses system resources to load will cause a lot of distortion. It's not as crackly, but the sound jumps and slows a hell of a lot when i do absolutely anything else when playing music, like open a browser for example. I seriously doubt there is a fault with the card itself.
I've tried a fresh install, tested my speakers (which are fine) and the onboard sound is uninstalled and disabled in BIOS. There are no conflicting resources with the sound card. Could there be a problem with my motherboard? Or is there a better way to increase the performance of the sound? I wont even get started on running a 3D game engine while sounds are playing... If any more info is required just let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Haxel

You can also check if
- onboard sound/game/midi is disabled
- there are IRQs/recources shared w/ sound card --> change Audigy into another PCI slot if there is sharing (see your motherboard manual for IRQ assiments)
- SRC and HW acceleration are set to MAX
- directX drivers are up to date
- codecs are up to date
- drivers are 'correctly' installed (re-install original drivers from CD by running the ctzapxx.exe -> do not uninstall anything but just install and tag the option asking yuor permission to write over current drivers)
jutapa

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