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1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 27%
2) Acer AS3820TG laptop
3) Win7 32bit
4) 9.04
5) Intel Core i5 M450 @ 3.2Ghz
6) 4Gb
7) NI Audio Kontrol 1 , 3.1 (actually gives me better performance than 3.0)
8 ) Corsair F60 SSD
9) 8
10) 32Bit

48 Tracks (95%)without crackling or 40 Tracks @ 32 sample buffer or 16 ...

So it turned out, that at some point, i re-enabled turbo boost, and speedstep, and forgot about it. Disabling them in the BIOS, and locking the CPU multiplier solved the problem for me.

Win7 32bit, here, powerful machine, no DPC spikes at all (never exceeds 200us) strongly optimized for only DAW use. Same behaviour, time to time short GUI freezes.

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