Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Microphone Buzzing Issues

Hi there,
I have just built a brand new PC with a Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Soundcard.
Basicly the issue I have is whenever I enter a 3D program (game) the microphone I have plugged in starts giving buzzing feedback and i can hear a very faint buzzing through the headphones. Ive tried this in various different programs, L4D2, WoW, BF2BC, all of them have the same issue. When I am on the desktop everything sounds perfect, there is no microphone interferance and the soundcard is silent unless I choose it not to be.
I have tried updating the drivers, installing alchemy and basicly everything I can possibly think of. This is the second card that has done this and I believe it to be a driver issue instead of hardware.
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem as me? Im getting sick of it now.
The system specs:
Quad Core
ATI Radeon HD5970
2GB of RAM
PCI-E X-FI Card
Windows 7 64-Bit
Thanks

Ok. After much toiling I found that my cable management was the problem. All wires that run electrical current through them create a magnetic field. When you get a bunch of them gathered together (especially the dual 8-pin power to the video card) they create a lot of interference with the wire for your front audio jacks and can also affect your rear inputs/outputs as well. If you separate these wires it should dull, if not eliminate, the buzz. There also can be issues with grounding your power and making sure that you run clean power into your system (most battery backups can accomplish this). I hope that this information is referenced by all of the people who have been dri'ven into insanity by the annoying, but subtle, buzz. Good luck!
-F0GV3N

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