Basically as the title says - if you are using Realtek drivers on high end Asus Motherboards they are opening and closing audio channels each time you start playing a sound which causes a popping sound in your headphones or speakers.
Apparently this issue has existed for a few years but hasn't been really addressed. I've stumbled on the description by accident just now and seeing how many people experience sound issues wanted to share it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZyvOUdbUqYAsus technical support doesn't seem to know or at least doesn't think of it as an issue and there are only three solutions to this:
1) Don't use Realtek drivers and just stay on Microsoft stock drivers.
2) Constantly have some software running in the background (VLC with paused video will do or the software mentioned in a video above). Also if you are using nvidia experience software you can start and stop shadowplay for the same effect.
3) Don't pay attention to it.
So if you are hearing popping sounds when you start your pc or shutdown, or start some video - this is the cause. This is a separate issue from intel's ethernet drivers and other high latency driver issues.
