but the thing is, the line noise could be coming from the sound card or the reciever. if you turn the sound card all the way up, then that would mean that the line noise is coming from the reciever. If you are turning the sound card down, that would mean that the sound card has the line noise. A cheap sound card would have more of a chance to have bad line noise comparing it to a nice reciever.
I would try both. Try it with the sound at 50% on your computer, then at 10%, after at 100%. remember, there is more of a chance having the line noise on your sound card vs. receiver.