[namnibor]

Thank you for that comment as I know for instance an AI was seriously considering was the PreSonus Firewire Mobile or Firestudio Project AI where PreSonus stated the VIA 6308 worked but issues *could* arise at higher track counts. The native soundcard in my build is made by VIA as well but has been simple enough to totally disable it and select outboard audio interface as my card with no conflicts and will always totally disable Norton 360 when doing audio stuff as the only time this build is on the net is to download drivers, et al and certainly want that protection whilst doing those things but my laptop is my internet use machine. The DAW build is just for that with absolutely no bloatware nor games...and have it optimized for audio/video. This AMD+ 6100FX 3.3GHz, 6 core with 12 GB RAM and NVIDIA GT430 w/2GB can be overclocked quite a bit and have ample cooling but really feel it will serve my purposes well. I made sure to not have a wireless card in DAW build just to ensure it's not randomly wanting to search for a connection.
Yes, having tons of space in tower to pop-in this or that certainly is easier than a laptop. I have WIN 7 64 bit Home Prem. and NO plans of going WIN 8.