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aggi

My work laptop produces crackling/jumping noises through the headphone output whenever it is working a bit hard (calculating in Excel, opening new tabs in chrome). Not quite sure why as it's fairly powerful (i7, 8GB ram) but hey ho. Any idea if a USB DAC would stop this?

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rodabod in reply to @aggi

Posibly. In your current audio settings, is there any option for adjusting buffer size? In Windows XP, you could adjust the settings to bias the process to focus on running background services, which could possibly also help. I suspect using an external DAC could quite possibly solve the problem.

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aggi in reply to @rodabod

Cheers, there don't seem to be equivalent settings in Windows 7, although it is possible that I can't access it without administrator status.

Any idea whether DACs are plug and play or need to be installed? Could be an issue with not having administrator status.

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