Well I've got a 5 year old laptop (core duo, pretty crappy, under minimum specs for Platinum) and desktop with much less power than OP, motherboard rubbish compared to his, the engine never drops out, go figure. I strongly urge installing a clean version of Windows I suspect the situation will be completely different.. The last thing I would consider is hardware swap at this stage on the basis of what has been written in this thread.

Of course an upgrade is an upgrade, but I can guarantee his engine is not dropping out because of his motherboard specs.

Cheers.

Doktor Avalanche
but I can guarantee his engine is not dropping out because of his motherboard specs.

Of course the audio engine wasn't dropping out because of the motherboard *specs*.  
 
The OP has swapped out the motherboard.
I let him tell the rest of the story.  

LOL, hey Jim, I have not researched MBs specifically for a long time. Can you give insight on what makes the OP's MB questionable? (I honestly would never have jumped on the MB itself.)

Process of elimination... 
It was a stripped down build (only hardware necessary to run).
DPC Latency was thru the roof.
WiFi and Video were eliminated as culprits.
What's left that can cause such high DPC Latency?  Components/drivers for the motherboard
Granted it's not super common... but I've seen it a number of times thru the years.

Sorry I'm totally lost on the logic, the assumption here is it has to be a hardware issue to start off with.
Anyway seems to me there's stuff been going on behind the scenes here and the thread has been abandoned.

I am not going to dispute Jim's knowledge of hardware since he is much more up to speed than I am, but I admit I am hard-pressed to conclude any hardware "incapable." Sacrilege, I know, but even Realtek can be used for playback of audio without issues (just needs to be 16-bit... eek! CD-quality! ack, lol ).
 
Wdf01000.sys is a call to the Wi-Fi "Auto-detect" feature, and lit my LatencyMon up like a Christmas tree (even baking snaps into recorded tracks). I would very much assume the default settings on any Wi-Fi would be calling that guy, so even with a different MB, that needs to be disabled.
 

Doktor Avalanche
Sorry I'm totally lost on the logic, the assumption here is it has to be a hardware issue to start off with.
Anyway seems to me there's stuff been going on behind the scenes here and the thread has been abandoned.

You can hypothesize, guestimate, ponder, etc.   
Bottom line... new motherboard... and the problem is solved.

mettelus
but even Realtek can be used for playback of audio without issues 

With DPC Latency as high as the OP was experiencing, you won't be able to effectively work with audio...
Doesn't matter what audio interface you're using... the speed of the CPU/etc.
 
The OP's problem has been solved.
There's nothing left to argue about.   
 

Yes a new motherboard made all the difference in the world.  I haven't even tweaked the bios yet.  I have already been working with sonar projects. Thanks Jim.  Yes I did consult Jim because I have used his services in the past and he has always been spot on. I just didn't want to spend more time than I already had so I decided to pay for a consulting session. 
   I am totally grateful for everyone's input.  Sincerely.  I appreciate all of you regardless of what side of the hardware  vs software you are on(or whatever you want to call it) Thanks again to all of  you!!!

Not arguing with you Jim, that would be a fool's errand . From my perspective is more to understand a piece of hardware being "bad"... to clarify... hardware may be limited (i.e., Realtek cannot record for crap), but is not "totally incapable."
 
Maybe is foolish, but in my mind all hardware is capable of performance to a "certain" degree. Not sure if that makes sense though?