AIDA 64 Suspected to cause Sound crackle/pop white noise explosions

[Chaoscraig]

Hello all,

I am using AIDA 64 for a custom sensor panel on an ASUS Ryujin III  cooler display. My PC is maximus hero z790, Intel I9 14900k, (2x48gb) 24Gbp/s DR Hynix m die RAM. 

Its an intermittent issue that gradually gets worse over the course of a single boot session and goes away after a reboot. After about a day or so the sound crackles and pops and gets worse until there's these periods of white noise static explosions that are very loud.  

I suspect AIDA 64 to be the cause. Because I ran the computer without AIDA 64 at boot and the problem did not reoccur for several days when it would normally occur within about 1 day. I will be doing more testing to repeat and confirm this.  Because of the nature of the problem this testing will take a long time. 

Using WPR/WPA, I documented a strong correlation between long USBXHCI.SYS latency and duration of AIDA 64 session. As the session duration continues over the course of a day or so the max latency values climb from 0.1 ms to 30 ms.  Closing AIDA 64, or closing AIDA 64 and reopening it reliably returns latency value back down, however the sound issue does not reliability go away. 

Please advise 

[Chaoscraig]

I found the minimum number of things checked for my sensor panel to work, wondering if that would improve latency ?  Unchecking all the things within my current session did not stop the subtle crackle pop noise that is still creeping in. I am on a fresh boot now using this arrangement. I also enabled MSI for my sound controllers.  

 

[Fiery]

On 9/4/2026 at 12:41 PM, Chaoscraig said:

Hello all,

I am using AIDA 64 for a custom sensor panel on an ASUS Ryujin III  cooler display. My PC is maximus hero z790, Intel I9 14900k, (2x48gb) 24Gbp/s DR Hynix m die RAM. 

Its an intermittent issue that gradually gets worse over the course of a single boot session and goes away after a reboot. After about a day or so the sound crackles and pops and gets worse until there's these periods of white noise static explosions that are very loud.  

I suspect AIDA 64 to be the cause. Because I ran the computer without AIDA 64 at boot and the problem did not reoccur for several days when it would normally occur within about 1 day. I will be doing more testing to repeat and confirm this.  Because of the nature of the problem this testing will take a long time. 

Using WPR/WPA, I documented a strong correlation between long USBXHCI.SYS latency and duration of AIDA 64 session. As the session duration continues over the course of a day or so the max latency values climb from 0.1 ms to 30 ms.  Closing AIDA 64, or closing AIDA 64 and reopening it reliably returns latency value back down, however the sound issue does not reliability go away. 

Please advise 

Can you please check if the issue happens with AIDA64 v8.20 as well?  We suspect this could be caused by the USB-C PD monitoring module of AIDA64 that was not yet supported by the old v8.20 release of AIDA64.