[linux-audio-user] new computer woes

Thought I'd post to see if anyone has any advice. I've just built a new SMP machine: Asus A7M266-D, 1.0 Ghz Athlons * 2. I got some nice fans from endpcnoise.com (Molex) that are virtually silent and a Power Supply which is louder than what I'd hope but very reasonable for 400W's I suppose (dunno). I installed gentoo, latest alsa, etc... Unfortunately playback is distorted during video load. It is *not* a CPU load issue - I can playback just fine while compiling the kernel with make -j3. If I scroll pages up and down in galeon the sounds slows down :o. Jack doesn't report Xruns but sometimes delays when I do this. This occurs both with the onboard C-media chip and my Delta 44. I struggled for a long time to get the IRQ's not to share. I tried all the suggestions in the Audio Quality HOWTO. The video card is a PCI GForce 2. It was in my old machine and didn't cause any problems (while my old onboard AGP did create some noise). The only thing I can find is the PCI Latency settings are all set to 32. This seems odd I suppose, so I tried higher settings for the video to give it more bandwith and other variations with no success. I might go out and buy an inexpensive AGP card tomorrow, but I'd hate to find out the problem is deeper than that. Kernel is 2.4.20 vanilla tried with and without lowlat. Maybe I should back down to 2.4.19? Any suggestions? TIA --ant