Here's a weird one that I'm still trying to figure out. After roughly a minute of sustained GPU load (on a GTX 1080), I start to get audio pops through my speakers (connected to an Audigy4), followed ...

So I have a couple JBL 305s that normally just existed with a chromecast audio. But I decided to plug them into my PC today. All seemed fine, they sound great etc. But then I fired up Forza Horizon 3 ...

A simple USB DAC completely fixed the buzzing, static and inconsistent audio problems I thought were normal with motherboard ...