Dropouts

I am running an i7 machine with 6gigs of ram. I built this system a coupe years ago and it has ran really well with the exception of dropouts from time to time when I would adjust eq settings in the prochannel eq.
I just upgraded to X3 from X2 and the same dropouts are happening here and there. Some projects that I work on have tons of tracks and never have any issues until it adjust the eq. Do any of you have an idea what would be causing this? I was thinking of upgrading my ram but didn't know if it would make any difference.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Joe

Hi, I just had that problem with a new build though. This is what I found to fix it, setting the cpu performance setting to power save (instead of standard or performance) I don't know if this would help you or not.
 
(From my thread) "I was trying different settings with ASRock A tuning (asrock motherboard utility) and found the standard setting gave me drop outs, performance setting instantly killed the audio engine and power saving setting everything is working. I ran the audio tutorial file through 2 times without a dropout. Soundcloud, youtube and Itunes are playing without dropouts."

I had what sounds like this problem under the first release of X1 or X2, can't remember which.
 
Switching UA-101 driver mode from ASIO to anything else (WASAPI or WDM) made the problem go away. It was fixed (for me) in one of the patches.