Hello, I am wondering what I should do in order to get a bit more performance out of my system for using JACK and friends. I currently have two systems, and they are relatively similar. My main system is a Dell Optiplex, can't remember the model exactly right now, but it is: Intel P4 2.8GHz 512MB DDR onboard video Creative Audigy2 ZS The other system is: AMD AthlonXP 2800+ 512MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 I was considering buying a 2x512MB DDR kit for the P4, and dropping the old 512MB from there into the Athlon system. The RAM I am thinking about is: http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=003982&cid=RAM.178 Would it be better to save up and invest in a CPU/mobo upgrade? Or will a different sound card give me a performance boost (not sure how it would be possible, but..)? Or maybe I should find a PCI video card (NVIDIA or maybe there is something better?) to put into the Dell, if onboard video causes issues? Or is RAM a pretty good upgrade at this point? I ask because I am new at using software (other than Audacity) for multitrack recording, and when I get more than a couple apps up and running, my system gets sluggish, and I can't even load the Titanic SoundFont in Qsynth because it crashes (I presume due to lack of memory). Thanks in advance for any advice. Dana
