I had the same problem with an Asus Z97-Pro motherboard running 14.04 with Gnome. As instructed, I added the line <options snd-hda-intel vid=8086 pid=8ca0 snoop=0 > to the bottom of the file < /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf > and the sound problem went away. Thanks very much for resolving this.
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