Originally Posted By: Kent - PG Music
Hi Fiddler, I already had Dave check this on his machine so I know it's not his issue, but I'd check out your power settings in Win10, there's a setting that seems to be the default now on a lot of machines, which slows down the processor to save electricity. It made my new machine almost unusable for music production until I found it. This article explains where to look: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/prevent-drops-cpu-speed-70828.html

This has been the culprit for a lot of customers' performance issues lately, so worth checking out if you haven't.

Thanks
Kent
PG Music

PS posted this a while back here on the forum (i think), and system cooling is active: It's a must do indeed .... if you let Windows handle it when installing an 'update' or refresh it, it's set back to 0% for minimal ...

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