np8662 using x-fi notebook, severe FPS drops in all games, is my controller broken?

Hi!

I've never had issues before with my x-fi notebook, reason I bought it in the first place was mainly due to realteak and nvidias latency issues, this was a year ago.

Now for some reason i'm getting terrible lag in everygame i play and my sound gets all "garbled" up during these situations.

Example:

playing black ops:

xfi notebook, every 5 minute or so the sound gets all garbled into a mess, my fps goes from 80 down to 20-30 fps this last roughly around 5-10 seconds. Yes i'm aware black ops is a terrible port but this audio issue is present on other games as well on my steam account. In Mass Effect 2 the fps only goes from 60 down to maybe 50 but the sound goes to hell during those few seconds.

realteak (onboard soundcard) no issues what so ever, but the audio isn't exactly great compared to the xfi one.

I've spent exactly the entire night (14 hours) trying to come up with a viable solution, but now i'm pretty lost that's why I created this thread in the first place, i really could use some input here.

As you can see i've OC'd my CPU using throttlestop, is it possible my pcie port was damaged in some way during the overclocking, if so how does verify if it's true or not?

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My system:

np8662
Q9200 2.4Ghz OC'd to 3Ghz
4GB ram
nvidia 260m GTX
creative xfi notebook (pcie express)

It seems like pcie express and usb audio cards the choice is very limited, i have creative xfi notebook one and the maudio usb (absolutely terrible driver support).


Does anyone know if one can insert a real soundcard in an np8662/M860TU instead of using the onboard realteak one or creatives xfi notebook (im using right now)?


EDIT: I've also tried reverting back to stock CPU settings (before OC) and the problem remains

 

All I can say, it that I am also using a X-fi card and I have experienced 0 problems with it so far... in 4 years of use.

I am sorry I can't be of any more help right now.

 

Hey! No worries man, thanks for your input though!

I might add, yesterday I cleaned out the entire hdd, and re-installed w7 from scratch (thought about the corrupt register before), so everything is clean as a whistle.

Yes i've tried the soundcard on another laptop and there's no issues.

UPDATE: When i'm using my m-audio (usb powered) I'm experiencing the same issues.

Black ops 5 minutes ago

FPS around 60-80fps, then the sound starts to garbble up, and my fps goes from 80 down to 20.

Mass Effect 2 isn't as bad, only a 10fps drop when the sound garbbles up.

Using stock CPU settings right now, same issues.