Preference settings suggestions for fast PC

Any suggestions? Even a couple of key settings would be helpful as a starting point. Thanks

not much help... 

My computer has the i7 920, and it's wonderful for VST number-crunching. It doesn't have any of the other parts that you mention, so I can't help specifically with those. The main thing is to make sure you have good ASIO drivers (Edirol's drivers should be fine, others may recommend ASIO4ALL), and adjust the buffers and latency for the fastest response times your soundcard can handle. I can get 6ms latency easily - the processor & drives could go lower but the soundcard is the limiting factor.

Thanks Artbay. I'll concentrate on reducing the buffer size on my Edirol and even try using the ASIO4ALL driver with it. On some other hardware I own I have found the ASIO4ALL driver to have lower latency than the factory drivers. I never expected that for a generic driver. I guess many of the manufacturers cannot program good drivers. I always do my recording with my notebook PC and then transfer the file over to my i7 desktop for all my mixing and mastering. I don't even need the Edirol for that and can just use the Intel HD chipset on the desktop's motherboard.

One thing I find helpful if I have a lot of fx running is to right click on the items that have fx on them and click "Apply track FX to items as new take. I then make sure the new takes are all selected and disable the FX in the TCP. Doing that I can get under 6% cpu use with over 30 tracks running. I don't remove the original take or the FX because if I need to change something later I can just delete the new take and enable the fx to make my changes. Doing this also cuts WAY don't on the render time. Hope that helps some. Matt

Track Control Panel (the part on the left of your tracks) Matt

I think this is all a bit overrated, tweaking, especially these days, with fast computers. I have never gained any benefits from tweaking, but I have made things worse ! One in particular was a suggestion that changing processor scheduling from programs to background services would supposedly improve things, it made everything click ! especially when using a control surface, whenever I moved a knob a I got a click ! putting it back the way it was cured it instantly ! Also, adjusting for best performance instead of best graphics made no deference whatsoever, in fact in made me very depressed having to look at such a boring screen !!! :) ARP.

i7 920 quad core processor overclocked to 3.8 GHz Six Gigabytes of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM Two Patriot Torqx solid state drives used in RAID 0 configuration Windows 7 64 bit (use Reaper 32 bit because of plugin limitations) Wow and you are running into issues with that set up??? Solid state drives in Raid 0 that is overkill "i think" but i wish i could do that. From your specs i would say that its more of a driver and OS issue, i havent used edirol interfaces but your hardware is garbage (not just yours but in general) if you dont have good drivers or support for it. Make sure your dirvers are up to date. I wouldnt overclock in audio applications the system becomes more unstable when the cpu is overclocked. Maybee experiment with your memory clock settings lower the mhz to like 1200 or even 800 and up the timing i find that to be more of performance boost rather than overclocking the CPU. I assume that you bilt this machine yourself so you would know what you are doing.