I just pulled the trigger on a used ti2 desktop... :o wasn't expecting to go this route but I'm going to try both and see what happens. If it doesn't work I'll sell my snow and be happy with my upgrade.

Hope it works -- let us know how it goes.

Yes. I'll let you know... Probably have a report by next weekend.

I received my TI2 desktop this afternoon and successfully have both my snow and desktop running simultaneously in Cubase 8.05 on a crappy 5 year old Windows 7 PC with Virus Control via USB (audio & midi). I've layered a couple parts on both units while using other VSTs and not experiencing any sync issues. Feeling pretty good about this right now...

Good to hear its working. You're probably breaking records with 2 Viruses over USB working without any issue.

BTW the PC I use for music is about 5 years old too, but has a decent motherboard, CPU and RAM in it. Just a few days ago I cloned the existing HD and replaced it with a 1TB SSD (about $350). Fantastic upgrade, everything is blazing fast. The Virus of course isn't particularly HD intensive, but you feel the benefits of this upgrade in everything you do musically, loading Cubase projects or things involving sample libraries (Maschine, Komplete etc). And thankfully I didn't have to reinstall everything, because getting everything set up how I like it would have taken months. 5-7 years is around the time to consider replacement of aging HDs anyway.