audio skipping when using 260m GPU

This just started and I'm wondering what is going on. When booting the computer when the 260M GPU is active it boots very slow. Now I'm noticing that the audio is skipping sometimes as well as static. When I switch to the 9400 all is well. !

UPDATE: My issue may have been with the head phones I was using. I'm listening to music now, with the 260M enabled, and it seems to be playing with no stutters or static.

 

Powermizer driver issue. Disable Powermizer.

 

BatBoy suggests that disable PowerMizer may lead to GPU fried.
I also experence stutter in audio playback when my system is in Boost Performance mode but occasionally only while Im webbing in FireFox. The audio is fine when I do other stuff or just let my M17x alone.
In Save Power mode or Hybrid SLI disabled the audio works smoothly no matter what.

 

Wow, skipping audio is intolerable for someone like me (where Itunes is almost always playing music in the background).

Disable Powermizer and manually downclock your GPU (which is the same process as manually overclocking a GPU).

 

For me its intolerable either. But I dont experence audio skipping in games. When I listen to music I switch to Save Power and it will be fine.

 

Correct - because in games, your GPU stays at full blast clocks the entire time. Imagine if your Powermizer was downclocking during a game, you would not be happy!

Putting it Power Saver mode also apparently *forces* the GPU into its lowest power state (say goodbye to Hulu and other Flash videos that will skip without ample GPU acceleration), so you will not have this issue either.

The audio skips when the GPU ramps its clocks up and down (you can actually see this happening if you play a song and put up your GPU clocks in real time via CPU-Z or GPU-Z). It is either a driver issue or an Nvidia issue or a Windows 7 issues.