Drivers and motherboards

Not sure where to post this or why I'm posting it other than to share my sheer joy with people who might understand.
 
I've made many a post over the last 3 or 4 years crying out for help with my issues of awful latency and pops and crackles that have been driving me mad. Just the thought of spending a whole day, let alone a weekend recording without issue has been a pure fantasy.
I tried all the advice, disconnecting network card, usb devices, updating my bios (which messed up my overclocking) I bought a new graphics card which seemed to work for about a week. So over time I just gave up and tried to live with it, upgrading from windows 7 to 10 seemed to fix it for a while but turned out to be a false dawn. 
 
2 weeks a go I had a friend over recording bass and it was just plain embarrassing so I went to the gigabyte web site and had a look to see if there were any new drivers. The ones for my board (X58A-UD3R) were from 2013 but I did see something called, app center' which was new. I already had the gigabyte utilities which claimed everything was up to date but thought I'd see if this did anything and it did. It found a load of updates for my boards usb ports and bios which I either missed or they just weren't listed on their site. Maybe they hadn't changed the dates when they uploaded the new drivers.
 
Anyway, joy of joys, for the last 2 weeks I have thrown everything at my DAW and it hasn't flinched one bit, not one flutter, pop or crackle. I can have sonar open along with firefox and windows media player, all playing at once. No, of course it doesn't sound good but it doesn't crackle or pop which to my ears sounds like heaven.
 
I feel like I have a brand new computer and with it a new enthusiasm for recording again.
 
So there you go, just had to share it with people who understand and have felt the same pain and the same joy in finding resolution.
 
 
Steve