Optimising your PC for Sonar X

Hi all, about to do a clean install of Windows 7 and Sonar X2/X3. Can someone please tell me of the links that I've heard about on here somewhere on how to optimise your PC for Sonar?
 
Thanks in advance, Tones..

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I've never resorted to disabling the wireless card, but I do just disconnect from the internet for the duration.  That's it (mind you I'm not a "power user").

Hi JB
 
Useful feedback.  Just to clarify, you go System Manager > Device Manager, open up Network Adapters, right click the wireless option and select Disable.  Is that right and are there any issues when you re-enable later?

wizard71
There are tweaks you can do in BIOS that help.

If it aint broke dont try and fix it 
 
Changing BIOS settings could have devastating results if you arent 100% sure about what you are doing.
 

jb101
With modern computers there is little need to optimise.  In fact, it often makes it worse.
Change power settings, make sure nothing goes to sleep, and you're done.
If you have any problems, you can disable wireless card.  I only tend to do this whilst doing important tracking.
Beware of a lot of the optimisation tweaks.  Many of them were needed under older OS, but since Windows 7 they are not. 
I think quite a few of people's problems stem from tweaks they have done.  There is no need.

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Since lots of windows and other programs are now set to start via a scheduled task, I disable a bunch of the completely useless bits:
 machine evaluation
  user groove stuff
    sending the results
 auto defrag:    got caught by this one when working after 1 am.
 disk eval
 
And fur shure ALL updaters: windows, av, java, adobe,...  and never install any toolbars, which also want to update, as does chrome (cannot disable this, way annoying)
 
 
Most people never notice this stuff. But I suspect a bunch of hangs and crashes, and momentary slowness, are the result of these tasks/processes.

jm24
Since lots of windows and other programs are now set to start via a scheduled task, I disable a bunch of the completely useless bits:
 machine evaluation
  user groove stuff
    sending the results
 auto defrag:    got caught by this one when working after 1 am.
 disk eval
 
And fur shure ALL updaters: windows, av, java, adobe,...  and never install any toolbars, which also want to update, as does chrome (cannot disable this, way annoying)
 
 
Most people never notice this stuff. But I suspect a bunch of hangs and crashes, and momentary slowness, are the result of these tasks/processes.

Thanks mate. This is what I'm talking about guys, programs running in the background that can be closed down to optimise your Sonar use. I heard there was a tutorial on how to do this?

Download the Sweetwater's guide for tweaking your computer for recording if you want more information. Here is the link
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-7/
 
Just a bit of advice. be careful if you are turning off windows apps that run in the background, for example shutting off remote assistance may be good but shutting off remote registry will keep your system from booting. This is why some people say use caution. If you don't know what certain windows apps do when you look at them as an administrator then don't shut them off as you can mess things up.
 
Things like typing msconfig from the  the search or run command will bring up an over all view. from there you can shut down things like google update, apple update apps, or any other service that runs in the background. You won't use them while recording and they do take up system resources.
 
Under msconfig click on the services tab and check mark hide all Microsoft services at the bottom. You can turn off things like skype updater, Roxio Hard drive watcher ect. You can start these services anytime you want. I usually turn mine off when I record.
 
I leave the adobe acrobat working because I have the manuals for cakewalk software in adobe pdf.

If you need to tweak, then perhaps you need to look at upgrading your hardware.
 
Tweaking in this day and age is redundant (apart from power/sleep issues/some AV).
 
@OP - your specs seem fine, don't meddle.  Run Latency Monitor if you're having problems, and decide if you need to address any issues.  Otherwise, leave it alone.
 
I can't count the number of times I've seen people have problems that were related to "tweaks" that "they knew what they were doing" at the time.
 
 

I am telling you, when the scheduled defrag task starts running life becomes sad.
 
Windows auto updates, fo git about it.

I built an I7 3770K machine last year. It just screamed. BUT... Sonar would just stop every 1 to 3 minutes. There was no obvious reason and I had to do research. It had to do with CPU latency issues. IF you have problems, look at turning off the wait states in the BIOS. Once I did this, everything worked great. Now, realize that I push it REALLY hard. I record 32 tracks live at 176kHz sample rate.