Windows is a bit of an audio nightmare compared to a Mac. Everything is so much more complicated and painful.
Have you run Latencymon ? ACPI.sys is a DPC latency problem for many laptops, including mine, and is a source of clicks. Bitdefender causes masses of hard pagefaults too so I have to disable it when recording (as well as batterymon, wifi etc).
None of this nonsense every happens on my 2015 iMac.