Installed new gpu (rtx 3070ti) and now my audio is messed up making static noise

[opal egret]

Where do you plug in your headphones?

If you plug them into your case it's possible you accidently bumped the audio connector

[sage glacier]

i plug them into the front audio jacks for refrence i have astro a40s

and what would a "audio connector" look like?

[opal egret]

It would most likely be at the bottom of your motherboard. It looks very similar to a USB 2.0 connector if you know what that is

Might be something like this

And what power supply do you have

[sage glacier]

750w g.kill i think

(ignore the mess) still putting it back together

[opal egret]

I built mine almost 2 years ago and it still looks worse than that

I think it looks great, good choice on the card too

[opal egret]

the power supply shouldn't be the issue, can I get a picture of your motherboard below your GPU?

[sage glacier]

thank you😂

[sage glacier]

for sure hold on

[opal egret]

I think I see the issue, your audio connector is on the far left side, it has rainbow chords coming out of it, try pushing it just further in

Don't shove it, it shouldn't take much force

and turn off your pc and unplug it first

[sage glacier]

alright so basically unplug it and plug it back in?

[opal egret]

You shouldn't need to do the unplug thing but it might help, another issue might be all the dust in your case which might have clogged it just enough, consider getting some compressed air to clean it, maybe 10 bucks on amazon

[sage glacier]

yea i was just about to air clean it 5 mins ago, alright thank I'll try doing that definitely

[opal egret]

Did it work?

[sage glacier]

i dusted it off and pushed each side of the connectors

and the static is still happening

[opal egret]

Ok. Sorry to hear. Have you downloaded something like Realteak audio

[sage glacier]

was considering it, definitely gonna try it out

[sage glacier]

wait a second, you may have just help solve it cause when I go to my headphones (the normal audio thing I choose) it just said "high definition audio device" and before it had realteak

this might solve it

thank you sm 😭

[opal egret]

No problem

[sage glacier]

(just to update this forum) the problem is still going on. If i change the playback device via the sound button next to the internet it doesnt actually change