Windows sucks when it is not optimized for music production. Here's a video explaining what you can do to make it work better. Two programs I can highly recommend are Latenymon to check your latency and QuickCpu to adjust settings. What exactly are your PC specs? Using the above tips might solve your problem without having to buy something and save up a little to buy later. Source: 11 months ago

As for power saving options, you're better off using Throttlestop to change your power targets and boost behaviour or something like QuickCPU to modify your Windows power plan settings. Do your research before you attempt either method. Source: about 1 year ago

Try installing Quick CPU. It helps optimizing your CPUs power plan, scheduler andcore parking. When you play a game that has micro stutter view/record statistics with CapFrameX. It helps you tracking down the problem. I would also switch to a physical TPM module instead of that software crap. I know it's supposed to be fixed. Maybe I am paronoid. Which games microstutter? Source: about 1 year ago

Audio crackling is normally a overloaded CPU. If you hit thermal limit all kinds of stuff will start to misbehavie. Make sure you got latest chips et drivers from AMD.com and updated bios. Cap Frame X is great for finding bottlenecks. Check CPU load and max thread load. You might also want to try the tool quick cpu- fixes core parking and more. Source: about 1 year ago

If you’re uneasy about your temps being so high, the only real way to keep them lower is to effectively limit the turbo boost. You might have options in the asus software, but I personally like using Quick CPU[link]. They have some great explanations on the website and its a bit of a deep dive but allows for setting options somewhere in between fully disabling turbo and full throttle quickly. With medium... Source: over 1 year ago

Also Autoruns from SysInternals ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns ) "Explorer" tab lets you un-check / check individual entries. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

So perhaps it's time for autoruns: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns or a perf trace to rule out a hardware fault: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-analyzer. Source: 6 months ago

You can also disable it with Autorun. Source: 8 months ago

i've got cut/copy/paste on my context menu in 11... Check out autoruns [0] for easily cleaning context menu, startup junk, etc. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

You can use autoruns with virus total to check if you have anything turned on that shouldnt be running Https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns. Source: 11 months ago