Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
A I mentioned earlier, you are not playing intense games or mining crypto. Personally I never had issue disabling that feature. I have it disabled on all of my machines.... for years.
It is not that your computer can't handle the CPU power with it being enabled, but the actual process of switching to lower speed (by throttling) can be a very likely cause of undesirable behavior (clicks, pops)

You are not prevented in enabling it back if you decide to.


I think what we are now theorizing (and it's still only a theory) is that the Tascam is not compatible with a throttled Win 11 i9 machine. So one question is what interfaces are compatible with a throttled Win 11 i9?

I get what you are saying and I have to proceed with caution. Destroying a $2000 machine in the name of fixing an issue with a $400 interface doesn't make economic sense. So I need to research this more. I don't think you understand all the technical details of my cooling system. And I certainly don't understand your system at all.

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for yours and everyone elses suggestions. But I'm at a point now where I need to pull the camera back and zoom out for the bigger picture. I don't want to "throw out the baby with the bath water". And there is still some low hanging, safe fruit yet to plucked off the tree.

Here are just a few questions to help get my arms around what you are saying.

Are you running an unthrottled 12th Gen Intel i9-12900K 3.20 GHz processor?
If so, beyond your DAW how many other programs are you multi-tasking?
Do you have liquid cooling or other enhanced cooling system? If no, what cooling do you have?
How many months have you been running a problem-free unthrottled i9?


Dell continues to follow up and wants to resolve this as much as I do. I give them credit for that. When I talk to them next I'll raise the Speedstep question.

Another option I have is to have Dell replace my i9 with an i7 if that is likely to solve the problem while maintaining system reliability.

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