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 2026 Win Audiophile. Software: Fender Studio One 8, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Presonus Quantom HD8 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.