Your cpu & RAM are great, so its not that. I was freaked out last year, as i was using an old riva TNT GFX card, i swapped it at Christmas for a geforce and my pops and clicks went ( when i used to use the scroll bars on the side of the screen it was using like 100% cpu). You're not running an ancient gfx card by any chance?
nah, i got a geforce 7900. i doubt that would be causing it
correct me if im wrong but since the dropouts are there during a mixdown, does that mean it has nothing to do with my audio drivers since the mixdown is just my computer adding all the waves together to produce one file?
my only hunch so far is maybe something to do with harddrive data transfer from my main drive or something. but htat wouldnt really make sense either since its sata and faster than my previous computer that used ata
ugh... someone shoot me