Mauri
I completely agree with you , it’s about knowing your machines capability and working with it ( im sure im going to get slated for this ) .
I personally use a moderate a mount of vsti’s and plugin’s and i couldn’t wish for a better production system and as you say it’s only experience of knowing what works well with your system that keeps the workflow going .
If i was to constantly keep pushing the system to the max then i would expect hickups and crashes and then i would think about redesigning my own system and workflow to suit .
It is a shame having to upgrade or update a machine you have got to know so well but thats tech for you .
To be honest i can’t remember a more stable win based cubase , i stayed on sx3 until half way through C5 and then updated and wished i hadn’t but now … This is truly an amasing bit of kit 