Tascam FW-1804 latency

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Hi all,


Recently I bought a Tascam FW-1804 audio interface to hookup my outboard
gear to the computer and mainly to make my home studio setup a bit smaller.
I plan do to more stuff inside the PC.
I'm happy with the soundquality and the features of the interface but am
unhappy with the latency it's giving me.
My Pc is not very high end, but should be more than adequate to give me a
snappier performance.
I'm forced to set the latency in the FW-1804's control panel to 512 samples,
any lower gives me clicks and pops. When I use it with audio software
(Cubase LE, Sonar, Acid, ...) the
audio coming into the FW always drags behind the PC-generated audio.
I've tried the driver as ASIO, WDM and MME.
Is there any way to solve this?

My PC specs are:

PIV 2,8GHz, 533 FSB
512MB DDR333 RAM
Lots of HD-space
Pinnacle dual firewire card
Windows XP Pro sp2



thanks,


Tom