Hi Cel ... and welcome to the forums ...
I'm not on a Windows 10 machine tonight (I'm on a Linux laptop), so I'll have to look at your MSINFO log a bit later on tomorrow. Thanks for providing all the system info, especially the motherboard information. As you noticed, we've found lots of tweaks over the past year or so to try and lessen the audio/video issues in high-end computers, but often the solution is to try a different motherboard. Sadly, the problem seems to be at its worst for the very highest-end equipment: the most troubled motherboards seem to be Asus/ASRock Z170 boards - especially when paired with Nvidia 970,980, &1080 cards - and, oddly enough- the onboard Realtek audio. A Z170 board that seems to be unaffected by the audio/video issues and has successfully solved the issue for a few of our threads here is the MSI Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard. It's an option you might want to consider, since the endless tweaking of drivers, Windows settings, video/audio settings, network settings, background processes, indexing, port allocation... ugh: it's enough to make a person crazy - especially when you know that all of it shouldn't be necessary. High-end parts should perform in an above-average manner, period. (We shouldn't have to do back flips & contortions to get things right). Here's an example thread, where after much of the usual tweaks were tried (unsuccessfully), the switch to the MSI board worked right out of the box:
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/wi...atency-audio-crackling.html?highlight=BestLux
Should you wish to have a go at it with your current Asus board, here's my list of tweaks. It's not all that detailed: it's more of an outline of the categories of things you can do to try and limit things from impeding the performance of your audio/video streams. And: since you've already mentioned torrents - along with the infamous ndis driver issues - a good first step is to completely do without torrents during your testing. [They aren't great for your system security, after all]. And make sure to check on the issue with firewalls - since you have the "Pro" version of Avast -- the issue of the software firewall port-scan blocking feature might apply for your system ... for some systems, that feature has to be turned off = not a terrible hit to security: so long as the gateway/modem/router used for the network has that feature already built into its hardware (fairly common for most midrange and premium models).
Some things to try for limiting audio/video glitches due to high latency issues and high hard pagefault issues
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SSDs
Since SSDs are dropping in price and growing in size, I've lately been recommending that the worst-offending audio-pop suffering programs/games be installed onto the SSD. Windows doesn't take up all that much room, and neither do a few games (you can still keep "saved games" and other non-demanding software installed to a larger "spinning" hard drive, along with your photo, music, and video collections).
SATA ports
Some users who haven't seen any improvement by means of updating drivers have had success by altering their SATA port usage. A recent thread here concerns a system where the audio stuttering was helped by unplugging a DVD SATA drive (...and our tech Cluberti was nice enough to help explain why) ... The last few posts are where you will see mention of the SATA ports (and the nature of USB polling & the effect on latencies) .... Here's a link to that thread:
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/wi...efaults-fresh-install-usbport-sys-others.html
Hard Pagefaults
For the high hard pagefaults, it can help to:
1) Limit startup processes that you don't need
2) Limit Windows-Updates file-sharing (in Settings > Updates and security > Windows Update > Advanced Options > Choose how updates are delivered > turn off "updates from more than one place" - that will limit unnecessary background network activity)
3) Limit the amount of "telemetry" (data sent to Microsoft ... choose the "Basic" option in Settings > Privacy > Feedback & Diagnostics ... and you can try "Never" as your "Feedback Frequency" while testing your latency issues)
4) Limit any Notifications that you don't need or want (Settings > System > Notifications & actions ...[especially turn off Windows "tips"]
5) Turn off "Live" tiles on your Start Menu (to limit unnecessary background updating of any information you don't want or need)
6) Uninstall any Windows "Universal" apps that you don't want or need (Settings > System > Apps & features -- click the app you wish to uninstall) ... and for those that you don't want, but can't uninstall (some of the built-in apps) - you can still keep them from starting unwanted services (in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) or startup modules (in Task Manager > Startup tab)
Drivers
Hunt Windows 10 compatible drivers (this can be an ongoing process). Try generics if the manufacturer supplied drivers cause issues. Try older drivers when the new cause issues. Try and try again. Drivers are sometimes the culprits for high latencies and interrupts.
Nvidia drivers - seem to be having issues on Z170 boards, especially when paired with Realtek onboard audio. When updating to the latest Nvidia driver, try installing it using the "custom" option, and the "clean install" option. You might also see if your want or need all of the background Nvidia services that come with the latest drivers, many as part of the "Nvdia GeForce Experience" - which you can choose to install or not when you choose the "custom" install method. Here's a guide that has some details on the background services installed along with the Nvidia drivers, it might help you decide if you can do without some of them:
Disable NVIDIA Streamer Service and other NVIDIA processes - gHacks Tech News
ASMedia USB 3.1 drivers .... have proved to be an issue for some users, especially for ASRock/ASUS Z170 motherboard owners. Hunt newer versions, try old versions, try generics. Still dicey as of July 2016....
USB device drivers ... USB host controllers, USB gaming periferals (mice, keyboards, headsets...), musical instrument interfaces, wireless dongles - all these can prove to be sources of audio issues.
Antivirus
Some users find that certain modules of their antivirus program can have a rough affect on their audio quality. For some, it is especially noticeable when using the third-party firewall. You can try reverting to using just the Windows firewall, or to turn off a feature in the third-party firewall that blocks port scans (since most routers/modems/gateways have built-in port scanning blocking, it doesn't necessarily lower your defenses, since your hardware provides the service). This issue has shown up for users of BitDefender, Norton, and Avast ... it likely can occur for others as well. The issue also doesn't seem to be "universal" - it only seems to affect a certain blend of hardware/software. (I know users of Avast, BitDefender, & Norton who don't experience any issues at all).
Virtual Memory & a large set range
Since some computers experience the audio/video glitching during gaming, and Latency Monitor graphs often point to high hard pagefaults as a contributing factor (as in the pagefault tips above), I like to recommend testing things with the Virtual Memory settings for your computer manually set to a generous range (generally, with the lowest value the amount of your total installed physical system memory, and the highest value twice that number). This is an overly large range = but it can prove useful for testing. [after testing, the upper range could be lowered to one and a half times the physical memory total]... The reason for the large set range is that some games are infamous for memory leaks, and the large range might give you a better chance of surviving the memory trouble caused by the game with the memory leak.
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I'll make sure to have a look at your files & see how you're doing late tomorrow ... We'll see how it goes!