Audio Sample rate issue

[Robby]

If you read post #1 a bit more, you'd see I'm using a DV-camera (Which is not a webcam in any way). So that is being recorded separately.

And I know for a fact that my system worked before the reinstall very well, my CPU never went above 100% completely. It mostly stood at a nice 80-90%, but never at 100%. Audacity recording was just a test.

I wouldn't consider the HDD that slow. How do you explain that it worked so smoothly before it crashed? And disk speed testing showed that it's running with (pretty much) the same speed as it did before, if not a couple MB faster. Something else is off here, clearly not the HDD, or it would be stuttering my system. I've had that happen to me when I recorded on 1280x720 before. And I always record at 1024x768.

EDIT: Audacity was for testing purposes. How I found outcome #1.