Has the OP found the bottleneck in his system? A good way to test if the HD is the issue is to test with a RAM disk. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this in Windows
The problem is not disk or CPU, the load values are far too low for that.Thanks for the replies. Nice to hear from other Reaper users. This is what I see in the Performance meter while hearing clicks/pops. Buffer is set to 512.
CPU 10.1%
Disk Total 2.2mb
Disk Read 2.2mb
Disk Write 0 mb
Ram Usage 1965mb
System Free 4461/8134mb
26 FX 16.61% CPU
If I up the buffer to 1024, I do not hear any clicks/pops.
Should note the project is set to 24/96.