Owners of Gigabyte motherboards probably noticed the phase LEDs on their motherboard. Turns out you can have them enabled while using your PC. It shows you the current CPU usage. It requires you to install and activate their Dynamic Energy Saver app.

That’s exactly what I did. Sure enough, the LEDs were working just fine. But their dynamic saving features also causes some serious audio issues. I started to hear frequent pops and clicks noises when listening to audio, and that from any audio applications. I first tried to re-install drivers, disable some apps I had recently installed, no luck. Then I had the idea to de-activate the DES functionality: no more audio issues.

Even more proof that you shouldn’t install any applications that comes bundled with your hardware.