Need Sound Card Advice & Answer To An Old Problem

newpcbuilder

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Aug 6, 2012
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Hello there, I am planning on getting the V-MODA Crossfade M-100 headphones soon and was wanting to get a sound card for when I use them at home. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a sound card that will work and sound well while not breaking the bank?

Also I have a question relating to in-game audio: Ever since I first built my pc in late August 2012 my audio would cut off when opening/closing a game. This affects not only game audio, I can't hear anything on my computer (except maybe skype) until I unplug the headphone jack and re-plug it in. On most games the sound doesn't work when its initially booted up (battlefield, civ 5, cs:go, etc). But for a few games it's not until I close the game or tab out of it that the sound stops (TF2) [also in tf2 re-plugging used to immediately bring the sound back but recently it takes about 5 minutes]

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H just in case if that info might be helpful.