Realtek HD Sound Crackles

My sound in Windows 7 crackles once in a while when listening to something, anything.

I tried two Realtek drivers, one Vista, one XP, with the XP being installed twice, second install was in compatibility mode.

This is the only thing keeping me away from Windows 7

Any solutions?

What motherboard do you have? I also have Realtek sound (integrated XO) and I didn't have sound when I first installed 7, so when I was finished with driver setup and such, I went through the 1-hour download for the latest driver (it was only 42MB, note to self: PCCHIPS servers are absolute crap) and I had to run the install in compatibility mode for xp sp2, then I rebooted and everything was better than new (no seriously, the driver that came pre-installed on the motherboard was ancient)!

yea ! took ages for downloading any driver from oficcial realtek page and no sound right after instalation of win 7

got a vista driver , now its working well , no cracks or anything else