Speakers too powerful for my processor/pc?

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Hey guys,

I recently bought speakers that are meant to be used for Studio purposes. So, to produce music and such. Any how, my PC is almost 6 years old I believe so I wouldn't be surprised if my PC would be the problem since the speakers are doing just fine when they're not hooked onto the PC.

My current processor is: Intel Core2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2.0GB RAM (I'm not sure if the RAM has anything to do with the processor:) ), and the speakers I've bought are : http://www.google.nl/imgres?um=1&hl...1&start=0&ndsp=39&ved=1t:429,i:81&tx=92&ty=67
Not sure if the image will help you guys, but it's worth a shot. Haha I'm not even sure if anybody can help me with this story at all. I'll have to wait and see.

Anyway, the problem that I have is the following; whenever I turn on the speakers while listening to music on Soundcloud, Beatport, iTunes, Youtube, you name it, my speakers occasionally stop working until I turn off all my music programs + speakers. They make this kind of, popping (?) sound. So, after turning off everything ( except for my computer ), I turn the speakers back on and run for e.g. iTunes again and it works fine, until I open up more websites. I think my processor has to gather too much information that it just drops out. Not sure if that's a (common) problem? The thing is, whenever I hook up my speakers to my DJ set, they work for hours and hours without the speakers making that popping sound. So the speakers are fine, it's just my pc...

So, basically what I'm looking for is an answer to what the problem actually could be, and what kind of cheap but decent processor I could get.

I hope my story is clear.

My generous thanks in advance,

Kind regards,
Rawrcoon
 
Good to see a fellow producer on here! First off, refresh my memory, are the Rokits powered or unpowered? If not, what are you using to give them power? Is any other kind of speaker hooked up? Like a sub or anything?
 
Mmm I guess the Rokits are powered. There's a power-cable sticking out, that's all I know :p
And no, it's an active speaker ( it has a subwoofer IN the speaker itself ).
 
Are you using on board sound on the motherboard or some kind of sound card? Could you be a little more specific with the problem? When you say the speakers stop working do you mean all sound cuts out and the popping starts? Does the popping get louder the more you turn up the volume? Last, is it popping or crackling?
 
Mmm I believe I'm using a sound card. A friend of mine put my PC together and I'm not sure what he put in it.

And yes, when the speakers stop working all the sound cuts out and the popping begins. I'm sure it's popping and not crackling. And indeed, the popping gets louder when I turn up the volume.

Sorry I'm not so specific, I'm not that techy so I don't really know what information I've forgotten to mention. I hope this makes it a bit clearer
 
RAWRCOON said:
Mmm I believe I'm using a sound card. A friend of mine put my PC together and I'm not sure what he put in it.

And yes, when the speakers stop working all the sound cuts out and the popping begins. I'm sure it's popping and not crackling. And indeed, the popping gets louder when I turn up the volume.

Sorry I'm not so specific, I'm not that techy so I don't really know what information I've forgotten to mention. I hope this makes it a bit clearer
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Easy way to tell if you're using a soundcard. The port that you plug your speakers into, is it next to a whole bunch of other ports (dvi, vga, usb, etc) or is it separate from everything else.
 
So, I've done some research on the KRK's and I've got two more questions. First, very unlikely but do you know if they blew a fuse? Again, unlikely that it would play with a blown fuse but who knows. Second, does the back plate feel hot when the sound cuts out? * Be careful when checking as it can get pretty hot. * The manual has a part about the sound cutting out and the back plate getting hot, it could be worth looking into, here's the link for more information.
http://www.krksys.com/manuals/rokit/rpg2_manual.pdf
 
Sephiroth said:
Easy way to tell if you're using a soundcard. The port that you plug your speakers into, is it next to a whole bunch of other ports (dvi, vga, usb, etc) or is it separate from everything else.
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Aha! I've got a soundboard then. It's a little box called Focusrite Saffire 6 USB, specially made for speakers like these!:) Thanks
 
Well I'm not sure if I've blown a fuse, so I'd say no actually :s.
And Dodgy, I'll check if my speakers get hot when they cut off. I also want to say thank you for your help. You've been very supportive!
 
Okay so, sorry for the triple post, my speakers just stopped working and the backplate doesn't get hot. I'm not sure if it occurs immidiately, though?
 
I'm pretty sure the speakers would be hot at the time of powering down, so seems like we can rule that out. One more thing, what's your cpu usage look like when the speakers cut out?
 
Dodgy, come to think of it.. The black plate at the back of my speakers do get warm when they cut out..
 
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Are they only warm or are they hot? Warm can be normal during use but if they get too hot they can shut down to stop overload. Are you running some kind of music workstation like Ableton, FL Studio, Reason etc. when the cpu hits that kind of usage or just things like iTunes and the like?
 
Mmm well they get warm. During normal use as well so I don't think there's a big difference between the temperature.

Ehmm no, believe it or not when I start Ableton it doesn't crash. It's when I use multiple sites at once, like Beatport & Soundcloud while I'm listening to music on iTunes. I think it's my CPU that has too much information to process, too much for the processor it self since it's about 7 years old.
 
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