Windows 10: Audio Popping and Crackling Still Despite Doing All Common Fix Reccomendations

About a month ago my PC started having popping and clicking sounds show up when watching youtube or listening to spotify and its been getting worse, sometimes accompanied by sluggish and choppy mouse movement. About an hour after a restart, these audio issues come up. I've used WhySoSlow and LatencyMon to try and figure things out, and they say my kernel and app responsiveness is bad, but don't offer any helpful insights into what to do about it, just to adjust power settings and update my BOIS, both of which I've done. I've deleted and reinstalled my realtek audio drivers, disabled settings in chrome and in the sound settings of windows, run Ccleaner (which after running and saying its helped, but says my PC is under the weather when doing a health check immediately afterwards) and running Windows Defender and MalwareBytes scans coming back clean. I've switched audio ports and physically cleaned out dust from my hardware. I'm at my wit's end trying to figure this out. any help is apricated.

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