My audio has been crackling lately, regardless of the headset I am using. Additionally, if the charger is bumped and is knocked loose even a milimeter, I FPS drops considerably in everything, even browsing, and the crackling intensifies to horrific levels.
That's not even the worst problem. The sound of any program will completely drop and will not return unless said program is restarted. I suspect this occurs whenever the active window is switched, but is not constant.
Windows 8.1
Processor: AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.30 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
System: 64-bit OS, x64 processor