If you are looking for something light, deadbeef may be good.

Additionally check on your background start up applications (the easiest way is to type msconfig in the search bar and press enter).  You'll probably want to disable all non-Microsoft services and all programs in the startup task as they are not essential for windows to run.  However, some...

I had issues with popping whenever running bit perfect and lower latencies.  I managed to find out by using DPC latency (and I kept gettings these huge spikes).  I turns out it was from a program running the background EasyTune6, which I use to control fans on my motherboard.  After that no...

Sounds more like a problem with the motherboard and not the cards.  Have you tried resetting the CMOS to see if there could be some bug in there with the settings? (You will loose all existing BIOS settings, but on my Gigabyte Motherboard, I am able to save profile settings, which remain after...

Have you disabled the AC3 Transform Filter in Internal Filters?  That is the decoder which is built into MPC-HC.

It would probably be better to get something like an DAC such as the Musiland 02 US as opposed to the STX if you were thinking of upgrading purely for music, tv, and movies.

Some of my programs will not run properly with it on, but my foobar2000 seems unaffected.

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