I will throw this story by you and see what y'all can make of it.
I'm running SonarXL on a P3-700, 384MB pc133 ram, sblive 5.1 platinum, IBM 60GXP 40gig 7200rpm with Win98SE. My band and I are working on our new album in my home studio. I go SBLIVE mostly because of it's soundfont capabilities...