Thanks everyone for all of the responses. I really appreciate it. I upped the power profile from Balanced to Performance and the clicking and popping stops for a time. After a few hours into a session, it comes back. Restarting resets the issue. BTW... Disabling hyperthreading improved the "studderi...

Hello everyone, This is going to be another (very) common question, and I know I can search the board.... BUT..... I just got back into my production hobby after a very long haitus and upgraded to a new laptop from an ancient (2001) Dell desktop running an Intel Pentium 4 chip and SB Audigy soundcar...