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Hi everyone, got a minor issue that I'd like to fix.

I'm running a Windows 7 PC. About a year ago I bought a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti video card so this repurposed office computer could do better graphically.

It replaced the built-in VGA card. Now instead of a VGA cable for video and a 3.5mm jack for audio, it is HDMI. I'm using a 32" HDTV for a monitor. It's been working very well graphically; the card has 4 gigs of RAM on it, which doubled the amount of RAM in the case, and combined with an SSD it actually runs things like KSP and a few other games pretty well.

The issue I'm having, though, is that when I'm sitting here I like to stream a local radio station (I'm just barely out of reception range). The sound often slows down and gets a very compressed, digital sound to it that grates on my ears.

This also happens on YouTube videos.

The internet speeds are fine. I'm hard-wired to the router. Using the WiFi, I can easily stream Netflix and Hulu on my other TVs. Also, when I stream the same radio station on my phone or through my living room TV, it also sounds just fine.

It's only on this computer that the sound gets like this sometimes.

I can't seem to find anything like a buffer to adjust. It just happens and I don't know how to adjust anything to fix it. Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!