Has anyone used or heard of Rain (Audio) Computers? These are optimized for Virtual instruments and most popular DAW systems. They claim to fine-tune the OS (Windows 7) for audio, and claim there's a substantial improvement for audio applications versus off-the-shelf computers running windows.
Nothing about such a subject on wikipedia, and i've never heard about it ...unless you mean it's raining computers -- which would probably be because users are so frustrated with windows that they throw their computers out the.... windows
Rain Computers is closing down. I suggest ADK, but they're USA-based: http://www.adkproaudio.com/
I checked out ADK; They offer really good configurations, and even install/optimize your own software for free, offer life-time support, and have been at it for quite a while.
http://www.studiocat.com/open_cart/
I've been using a rackmount DAW from this company in the link above ( no relation to my forum name! ) I think the audio interface is crucial as well. I've used Emu 1820's a Motu and my current is an RME Raydat ( PCie version ). My PC is an i7 940 but I'm still on Windows XP Pro 32 bit! I just have so many plug-ins and libraries...I've been putting off going 64 bit.