weird noise with headset

[Brooksie]

I bought myself a new headset today, the Creative HS-950 which plugs into a usb slot. The question is when I have the headset on and then i'm scrolling down pages with my mouse I get a weird noise, could this be a USB interference and would the problem be fixed if I got a sound card?

 

[Sihastru]

If it is electrical noise then I would try another USB port, best one to try is one on the backplate, worst would be one that's on the case front panel. The front panel USB could have a poor quality cable that has poor shielding.

If noise persists, try increasing the PCI latency timer to something like 64, 96, 128... 32 is default for Intel based MB and 64 is default for AMD/ATI MB.

I am not exactly sure if your current integrated sound card is disabled or not. If it is not disabled, maybe it is used and it's line in, mic in and aux in aren't muted and their IO is overlapping the IO for the Creative sound device (something similar to multistreaming).

I'm just guessing, since I've never had an USB audio device, but maybe it's worth to try...

 

[Rastalovich]

Definitely sounds like the noise.

It's a kinda welcome to one of my setups that produces, hdd, cpu, gfx noise all in one !

I'm bemused as to why the usb headphones are giving this, there are many roads to try and solve this. U can get it on regular phono headphones if the cable is too close to something strong like an iec cable, that wouldn't explain the mouse actions tho. A monitor/dvi/vga cable could do it I guess if it was an el-cheapo thin one (skimp on the shielding within).

Mostly tho, I tend to think that the sound device, the pci(e) card or onboard is the answer. The latency thing used to help with screeching creative soundblaster cards, sometimes, but as with myself, I'm looking at the gfxcard influencing the soundcard. I'm trying to think of some kind of shielded hood I can put over mine.

 

[Brooksie]

ty for the replies