I'm aware of all that Eddie, I just don't work like that but since you do great, the more RAM the better. If I start a project which would be music 90% of the time and some video editing maybe 10% I close all other programs down. Just habit I guess. Since this is a music production forum I'm focused on that. Don't forget, the more stuff that's running when you're trying to record, mix, render audio the more chances of getting glitches. It's stuff like that that causes so many threads that go on and on here until finally at the end the person comes clean with something like what you're doing. They shut the crap down, clean the system up and all is well but it takes days sometimes to finally dig it out of the guy.

Many, many problems are also caused by people who "think" they're computer pro's who constantly tweak the crap out of their systems, add 3rd party stuff that's supposed to "help" and the next thing they know their audio is a mess. I've never, ever had any problems at all with my computer based audio setups in 15 years because I run a rock stock Windows system. No tweaks, no outside crap, no nothing. I let MS do automatic updates and that's it. Andrew confirmed that a few years ago when he answered the question who has the most problems with their systems? It was those guys who think they know better.

Bob

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