Recommend socket 754 mb's with little RF noise?

[justinluck]

As you may have read in the other thread, I'm having a problem with visible interference seen with my capture card. For those of you who do not experience any interference bars in their capture screen, can you list your motherboard and PSU? Thanks!!

[redwudz]

My X64 is a 939 pin, as in my profile. I use a ADVC-100 with it. The DVICO card is in different computer, a ASUS A7N8X-E with a 2200+ Sempron, bus OC'd to 400Mhz, 512MB DDR400 memory. It has a Seasonic SS-300FS PS.

I use a NEC 15" LCD monitor. No visible interference with the DVICO card on cable or HDTV. May be there, but must be very faint and there's no movement I can see on 'blue screen' backgrounds.

Have you looked into the 'Spread spectrum' setting in BIOS? It's there to lessen EMI (RF) noise. It's under 'Frequency/Voltage Control'. It should be enabled by default. Try disabling it and see if the EMI increases. That might tell you if the interference is coming from the MB.

[pfh]

I bought a PC Power & Cooling 400 psu about 4 years ago and still going strong. It's been paired with 2 different mobos, latest is a 2 year old Gigabyte KT600.
If you are serious about power supplies then buy a PC Power&Cooling. Top of the line.

[Richard_G]

I've never had any interference problems but have always used VIA chipset motherboards, IDE hard drives and have disabled the onboard sound (which all motherboards seem to have these days) and used a separate Soundblaster. There are known problems with interference on video captures with nVidia chipset motherboards, particularly if using SATA hard drives in RAID arrays.

[justinluck]

I tried disabling spread spectrum. No difference... Interference bars still continue to change in direction, speed...AND bar thickness when just staring at a blue screen!!

Edit: I just tried disabling my onboard sound but this did not help either...oy vay!