Your i3 is fine for BIAB. LatencyMon is fine, perhaps even better than DPC Latency Checker.

What was the name of the BIOS setting suggestion?

I am very surprised by your disk access hitting 100% though. That would indeed cause audio dropouts. Unless you have an SSD drive, have you run a good Defragging program?


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.