Jinx. stutters and stops came back just less. Web pages loading make a non-web player hiccup. This is a powerful machine with nothing going on in the background. WTF this is annoying.

I hope I don't jinx myself but I may have fixed it. I downloaded (and installed) several drivers. a couple from Realtek and the one that seemed to word was designated as a Realtek driver specifically...

Still not solved, this problem. In fact, it seems to have gotten worse and has expanded to any audio, even youtube videos. I have attached a screenshot of latency monitor and text file. Maybe there...

OK, I installed the latency monitor and it does not like something. There is no WLAN but it also suggests checking CPU throttling.

There is no Mic installed or plugged in. I did flash the bios for the mobo and that did clear up all but one issue. When playing with any audio player, at about the 1:06 mark of every song, I get a...

Kind of what I am thinking too. Mobo issue but hopefully isolated to just the sound chip. I have been building my own PCs for almost 20 years and sound is always a problem early on and then I get it...

Not the issue. I recorded the sound with Audacity and the noise did not appear on in the waveform. It was just blank on the recording. Trust me though, there is a noise on every audio file at 1:06.

The connection is good it is a 3mm plugin the back, had the speaks (Klipsch 2.1) for years and I tested them on other devices, never an issue. I did update the bios very early in the build. The...

I built a Win10 machine several months ago and I finally have time to chase down a couple annoyances. The first being noises that emanate when playing music files from any one of three players that I...