X370 Gaming K4 High DPC Latency in Win10

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   Hi
Recently built a new Ryzen system using the X370 Gaming K4 board and R1700

Installed a fresh Win10 and the stuttering / cracking sound when playing music is really annoying me

I checked using Latency Mon and here's the report:

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CONCLUSION
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Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates. 
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for  0:00:21  (h:mm:ss) on all processors.

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name:                                        BRIAN-PC
OS version:                                           Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 14393 (x64)
Hardware:                                             ASRock, X370 Gaming K4
CPU:                                                  AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor 
Logical processors:                                   16
Processor groups:                                     1
RAM:                                                  16336 MB total

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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed:                                   3394 MHz
Measured CPU speed:                                   1 MHz (approx.)

Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.

WARNING: the CPU speed that was measured is only a fraction of the CPU speed reported. Your CPUs may be throttled back due to variable speed settings and thermal issues. It is suggested that you run a utility which reports your actual CPU frequency and temperature. 

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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.

Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs):   11279.366512
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs):   38.871049

Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs):       11273.779209
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs):       31.304214

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 REPORTED ISRs
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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.

Highest ISR routine execution time (µs):              8.835592
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time:       Wdf01000.sys - ?��?模�?驅�?程�??��??��??�段, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total ISR routine time (%):          0.000458
Driver with highest ISR total time:                   Wdf01000.sys - ?��?模�?驅�?程�??��??��??�段, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in ISRs (%)                          0.000458

ISR count (execution time <250 µs):                   2191
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs):                0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs):                0
ISR count (execution time 1000-1999 µs):              0
ISR count (execution time 2000-3999 µs):              0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs):                 0

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REPORTED DPCs
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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.

Highest DPC routine execution time (µs):              11286.797879
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time:       storahci.sys - MS AHCI Storport Miniport Driver, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total DPC routine time (%):          0.251553
Driver with highest DPC total execution time:         rspLLL64.sys - Resplendence Latency Monitoring and Auxiliary Kernel Library, Resplendence Software Projects Sp.

Total time spent in DPCs (%)                          0.428459

DPC count (execution time <250 µs):                   75786
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs):                0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs):                4
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs):              0
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs):              2
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs):                 0

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 REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.

NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.

Process with highest pagefault count:                 backgroundtaskhost.exe

Total number of hard pagefaults                       1223
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process:          298
Highest hard pagefault resolution time (µs):          1012059.156747
Total time spent in ha