If you adjust the advanced windows power settings and the settings in NVIDIA control panel (at least you can for AMD cards so I would imagine NVIDIA...
Unfortunately an external sound card is the only way to go. I know what you mean though, the on-board audio quality is the biggest flaw of the Vortex...
I don't really either. :) I just remembered from my last build which was overclocked where I had 1600MHz RAM and it was reduced down to 1333MHz. So I...