Crackling noise at high volumes after PSU died and was replaced?

[JoeThePro856]

Recently I got a GTX 1060 but upon using it for a while my PSU broke with a massive spark and a pop. After replacing it I had to reinstall windows as my hard drive seemed to have been corrupted and I had the white flashing bar upon boot. Finally after reinstalling windows and getting all my drivers back I've been noticing a very prominent crackling noise and distortion of audio at high volumes. I'm not sure what to do, can anyone help?

Full Specs:
GTX 1060 Windforce Gigabyte 6gb
AMD FX 8350 4.0ghz
MSI 970 Gaming motherboard
Corsair 650W 80+
16gb DDR3 RAM

EDIT: I've discovered that for some reason the only program it's affected so far is chrome, "Warframe" isn't affected at all. Hope this helps

 

[WyomingKnott]

My best guess would be that the motherboard was also damaged by the PSU failure. If you were lucky only the sound part was damaged, but that would call for some pretty precise luck.

 

[JoeThePro856]

I can't afford a new board and I don't have another rig so I think I'll leave it for now as it's not too bad. If in the future it get's worse would a sound card fix the problem or potentially fix it?

 

[JoeThePro856]

Ok yea that makes sense, thanks for the quick replies