What I did was a clean install of Windows 10 professional on an SSD drive. Also have Ivory on a separate SSD drive and my other samples, audio are both on 2 WD Black 1TB drives.
I laid out my USB strategy so that the MOTU is on it's own USB2 onboard port and all my other devices are on an add in USB 3 card.
About the only sketchy part of my outdated system is the Nvidia GT630 card. It seems to generate high ISR level according to latest LatencyMon program
"Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation"
This board shares slot irq and there seems to be no way around it. I have also turned off C-states etc and parking as well.
Other than that, here is my modest system:
Intel Gigabyte x58 UDR3 i7 950
16G memory
Samsung / PNY SSD for OS and Ivory, qty 4 WD Black 7200 RPM drives.
Windows 10
Nvidia GT 630
MOTU Ultra Lite AVB
Event ASP8 Monitors
P.S I'm a long time Cake user going back to the Pete Leoni / Catena days.