Ocassional stuttering and weird audio popping crackling

[Cibot]

So about a month ago, my pc started having issues with my Realtek 2.5G Lan Port randomly being disabled. It was pretty random and resolved itself after deactivating / activating the device multiple times in device manager. It keeps happening occasionally still, randomly dropping the LAN connection. Windows will say, Ethernet cable is not connected for some reason. Deactivating / Activating the adapter in device manager, will resolve the issue 100 % of the time.
I have bought a separate NIC that uses the same Realtek chip, but still same issue.
Now, while having these issues, I also started getting stuttering issues. That results in multiple stutters per minute where audio crackles and I get stuttering video and mouse. Now I thought, OK, maybe it's just windows being weird. So I uninstalled Windows completely fresh, formatted my windows drive from a USB drive and installed it completely fresh, Windows 11 PRO 64 bit. It seemed to work for the first 4~ days, and now it's back again. I did not install anything after the first day and there was no Windows update after 2nd day. Now, I also updated my BIOS to the newest version, so that also didn't help. Sometimes, restarting resolved the issue, before I reinstalled windows, I could sometimes just wait 10–15 minutes after Windows boot and it would go away. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore and I get pretty reliable stutters. But sometimes, just rebooting the system will fix the issue for some reason.

My System:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12 Core (Not OC'ing)
X670 Gaming X AX (BIOS F32g)
Kingston 2x32 GB 6000 MHz (EXPO 1 set in BIOS at 6000MHz - changing to no EXPO doesn't help either)
AMD Radeon 6900 XT
Multiple NVME's, SATA drives
1200 W PSU (bequiet)

It's also not a temp related issue since CPU idles around 40-52 °C at idle and at around 70-95 °C depending on the load. Stress test will usually go to 95 °C, but games usually don't go above 80 °C.
Now I've tried benchmarking tools like furmark and cpu-z, I have determined that it's not load related. I still get the same amount of stuttering.

My autostart programs: Plex, Riot(vanguard), Discord, CreativeApp(g7 external audio), Steam, Discord, WallpaperEngine, SunShine

Recently, stuttering has not been occurring however, I get audio crackling in some games and videos.
For example, I frequently play Escape from Tarkov and there, whenever I am indoors, there will always be crackling when moving loudly.
Since this is the only place where I can reliably reproduce the crackling, I have tried both my external Soundcard (SoundBlaster GC7) and internal onboard sound. Both have this issue. Also tried different headphones, didn't change it. Now I don't think this is a game issue since I have been playing this game for years and I never noticed it, but now it suddenly appeared. It also happens in random livestreams sometimes that I watch.
I have tried memtest, prime, furmark, cpuz, all seem to be having no issue. There was also something I found, called LatencyMon which measure audio latency, but there it showed green, but I wouldn't know if something was broken there.
Honestly a bit unsure on how to proceed further. I do have another system, but it's running on AM4, so I can not exchange any parts for testing.
My warranty expires in 2 weeks so I can send it back and probably get it repaired or looked upon, but I have a feeling, they'd say nothing is wrong with it since it's such a specific and hard to catch issue.

 

[eidairaman1]

So about a month ago, my pc started having issues with my Realtek 2.5G Lan Port randomly being disabled. It was pretty random and resolved itself after deactivating / activating the device multiple times in device manager. It keeps happening occasionally still, randomly dropping the LAN connection. Windows will say, Ethernet cable is not connected for some reason. Deactivating / Activating the adapter in device manager, will resolve the issue 100 % of the time.
I have bought a separate NIC that uses the same Realtek chip, but still same issue.
Now, while having these issues, I also started getting stuttering issues. That results in multiple stutters per minute where audio crackles and I get stuttering video and mouse. Now I thought, OK, maybe it's just windows being weird. So I uninstalled Windows completely fresh, formatted my windows drive from a USB drive and installed it completely fresh, Windows 11 PRO 64 bit. It seemed to work for the first 4~ days, and now it's back again. I did not install anything after the first day and there was no Windows update after 2nd day. Now, I also updated my BIOS to the newest version, so that also didn't help. Sometimes, restarting resolved the issue, before I reinstalled windows, I could sometimes just wait 10–15 minutes after Windows boot and it would go away. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore and I get pretty reliable stutters. But sometimes, just rebooting the system will fix the issue for some reason.

My System:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12 Core (Not OC'ing)
X670 Gaming X AX (BIOS F32g)
Kingston 2x32 GB 6000 MHz (EXPO 1 set in BIOS at 6000MHz - changing to no EXPO doesn't help either)
AMD Radeon 6900 XT
Multiple NVME's, SATA drives
1200 W PSU (bequiet)

It's also not a temp related issue since CPU idles around 40-52 °C at idle and at around 70-95 °C depending on the load. Stress test will usually go to 95 °C, but games usually don't go above 80 °C.
Now I've tried benchmarking tools like furmark and cpu-z, I have determined that it's not load related. I still get the same amount of stuttering.

My autostart programs: Plex, Riot(vanguard), Discord, CreativeApp(g7 external audio), Steam, Discord, WallpaperEngine, SunShine

Recently, stuttering has not been occurring however, I get audio crackling in some games and videos.
For example, I frequently play Escape from Tarkov and there, whenever I am indoors, there will always be crackling when moving loudly.
Since this is the only place where I can reliably reproduce the crackling, I have tried both my external Soundcard (SoundBlaster GC7) and internal onboard sound. Both have this issue. Also tried different headphones, didn't change it. Now I don't think this is a game issue since I have been playing this game for years and I never noticed it, but now it suddenly appeared. It also happens in random livestreams sometimes that I watch.
I have tried memtest, prime, furmark, cpuz, all seem to be having no issue. There was also something I found, called LatencyMon which measure audio latency, but there it showed green, but I wouldn't know if something was broken there.
Honestly a bit unsure on how to proceed further. I do have another system, but it's running on AM4, so I can not exchange any parts for testing.
My warranty expires in 2 weeks so I can send it back and probably get it repaired or looked upon, but I have a feeling, they'd say nothing is wrong with it since it's such a specific and hard to catch issue.

The ethernet port is bad and that is grounds for them to replace it under RMA, if they say nothing wrong with it , put it on ebay for parts and go get a different board, i mean the ethernet failed, whats to say other parts if that motherboard wont start failing now?

Also I suggest AsRock.

 

[Cibot]

So today, I've been having insane stuttering again, and I started LatencyMon to check. I have tried solutions which are online, but they don't seem to work. Whenever the stuttering occurs, I get these Latency Issues and my System seems to peak to 50 % load.

 

[Cibot]

So I have ordered a new Motherboard, no stuttering to be seen. However, I am still getting crackling / popping in certain scenarios.
One example, I have been able to reproduce, is when I skip through a YouTube video.
The other one is still a video game I am playing but since I haven't been playing any other games recently, I can't tell whether it's just the game or something else acting up.
I at least don't remember having this issue like weeks ago when I started playing this game...

Any idea as to why that could be occuring? I have again both tried the onboard realtek audio and my external Soundblaster GC7 USB board but both produce the crackling.