Wooshing and scratching sound in Windows 7

I have an iMac I've been running windows 7 RC on for quite a while. After I installed Bootcamp drivers it worked perfectly.
So I decided to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and I started getting a lot of problems with the sound. I'm not "exactly" sure what sound card I have, but I believe it's realtek. (note what it sais in device manager depends on what driver I have installed so this cannot tell me what exactly my sound card is)
So after trying some different Realtek sound drivers and the normal windows sound drivers I thought to myself this is probably just a problem with the drivers not supporting 64 bit.
So now I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, installed all the bootcamp drivers for my iMac... They're are not all "up to date" since I get them from my Leopard OSX CD.. So the realtek drivers that comes with my bootcamp is this version:
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R1.82 - And this does not support windows 7.
So I downloaded the R2.41 which does. (Note I tried several R versions on my 64 bit) Still same problem as before. Wooshing and scattering sound like when you are on a radio with bad reception. The higher I turned the volume up the less the whooshing is. But it's still the. And it's REALLY bad when the sound is just turned down a little.
Here are my system specifications:
iMac Revision 8,1 - Bought November 2008
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz E8335
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT, 256 MB ram
2 GB RAM installed
So I hope anyone can help me solve this problem?
Here is some information I pulled out of the Windows System Information:
Name Realtek High Definition Audio
Manufacturer Realtek
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0885&SUBSYS_106B3C00&REV1001\4&39D4505F&0&0001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhda.sys (6.0.1.6029, 2,85 MB (2.991.328 bytes), 09-02-2010 17:56)
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Apple Inc.
System Model iMac8,1
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8335 @ 2.66GHz, 2667 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Apple Inc. IM81.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091538, 09-02-2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2,00 GB

Not sure why, but curious, it makes no sense (to me) to use 64-bit Ultimate when you have 2GB RAM unless you plan to add 4GB memory.
How did you install the release? custom clean install hopefully. I'd redo and this time go with 32-bit (at least now Windows 7 comes with both, unless you took some shortcut system builder version).

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