Jitter during music play while accessing harddrive?

Jarleester

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After having used my computer for more then a year, I accidentally noticed some disturbing sounds while playing music with my 'normal' music player (MediaMonkey, which also keeps track of all music on my harddisk). This only happens after my total memory 'has been converted to standby-memory'.
I know a lot has been said/asked about the internals of Windows 7 memory management, and I guess this is one of the cases where I also have to raise a question.
I understand the reason to have memory on standby, easy to grab a chunk :).
But I don't get any insight in what happens when my 32GB is fully converted, the audio I play needs some data from the disc, any played music (whether .flac or .mp3 don't care), will be release and reused if needed. At first, I didn't even hear any disturbance, so I guess it is something that is caused by newer software/management/whatever.

After a restart, I can wait until the memory is full on standby, and the same thing happens. This is annoying to say the least. It looks like something is disturbing (on a higher priority task) music playback, and that task takes too long time (millisecond level). The jitter/disturbance is audible like:
slowing down the beat for a second or so.
annoying 'scratches' inside playback (which is not in the recording)
small repeating patch inside playback

In case you would say: why not move over to another Media Player: I did, was my first idea, but it doesn't help, the result is the same with Windows Media Player (which is not my first choice, but does the job very well indeed).

What I have tried to do thus far (but without any noticable results):
Pagefil.sys
Since 32GB memory should be enough, I would like to run without additional swapping memory, so I
started running without it. Went OK for a while (I think).
Had pagefile.sys on SSD: same problem
Had pagefile.sys on HDD: same problem
Had windows manage pagefil.sys: same problem
Had no pagefile.sys: same problem
Updated:
Realtek audio drivers
Nvidia video drivers
Internet port drivers
MediaMonkey

Tip for getting memory converted to standby: copy some huge files.


Suggestions are really really welcome :p!

System description:
MB: Sabertooth Z87, Intel I7, 32GB RAM
HDD: Windows 7 (and all program software) on 180GB SSD & 4TB Hybrid HDD
VIDEO: Nvidia GT-760
 
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Computer type
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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom build
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU
Intel I7
Motherboard
Sabertooth Z87
Memory
32 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GT-760
Hard Drives
SSD 180GB
HDD 4TB (Hybrid)
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Come on guys (and girls), I don't mind crazy ideas, and I know you love to solve puzzles... This is a major one for me, and although I found a nice program to view my problem, this is still unsolved.
Doesn't this sound familiar to anyone? Do you need more descriptive text/picture/... whatever? Is the problem description unclear? Tell me.. I'll try to explain a bit more then.
 

My Computer My Computer

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bitIntel I732 GBNvidia GT-760
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom build
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU
Intel I7
Motherboard
Sabertooth Z87
Memory
32 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GT-760
Hard Drives
SSD 180GB
HDD 4TB (Hybrid)
Antivirus
Avast
Browser
Firefox, IE, Opera
Check your latency issues with either DPC latency or LatencyMON
 

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Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1Intel® Pentium® 4 @ 2.26 GHz, Intel Core i7-2...512MB Dual channel DDR SDRAM @ 400MHz 2.5-3-3...Intel 82865G, Nvidia GeForce 520M Graphics
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Laptop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Optiplex SX270, Lenovo Z470
OS
Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
CPU
Intel® Pentium® 4 @ 2.26 GHz, Intel Core i7-2670QM @ 2.20 GH
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Dell, Lenovo
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512MB Dual channel DDR SDRAM @ 400MHz 2.5-3-3-7, 8 GB DDR3
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Intel 82865G, Nvidia GeForce 520M Graphics
Sound Card
SoundMax Integrated Audio, Integrated HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
LG W1952
Screen Resolution
1440x900, 1366 x 768
Hard Drives
40 GB 2.5" IDE 4200 RPM HDD, 500 GB 5400 RPM Sata 1.5 + 32 GB SSD
PSU
Dell 145 Watt, Lenovo 120 Watt Power Adapter
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Optiplex SX270 Small Form Factor, Laptop
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Dell Proprietary Air Cooling, Stock laptop cooling
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Dell SK-8125 USB Keyboard
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Dell PS/2 2 button ball mouse with wheel scroll
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300 Mbit down / 20 Mbps up Time Warner Cable
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MSE, Malwarebytes Scanner
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Internet (Aizawa) Explorer 11
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Running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter on a virtual machine to run Metro Apps.
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