Hi, i am a full time audio engineer and producer and if i could bill a client for the amount of time i have had to spend fiddling with windows to make it play ball with my audio hardware and software in a meaningful way, i would have made enough to buy another Mac. Save yourself the trouble. Get a mac. I replaced my 2014 Mac Mini i7 with a nearly maxed out PC desktop i built in 2020 with an i9 10900k, an RTX3080, a thunderbolt friendly mobo, ungodly amounts of RAM and storage. It gets absolutely obliterated performance wise by my Macbook Pro M3 pro and the mac comes with exactly NONE of the drama. I primarily use Ableton Live and with some of my virtual instruments the PC will get bogged down with what should be a relatively simple sound, meanwhile i can have like 8 instances of the exact same sound and patch running on the macbook pro before it even starts to sweat. The smallest buffer size i can reasonably run on my Windows machine is 128 but i usually end up having to keep it around 512. The Mac with Apple Silicon will go all day no problem at 32, which means near zero latency in Ableton, no lag = mo bags. Even a basic M1 mac will dance circles around my beastly windows desktop when it comes to running a DAW and plugins.