Any hope for using a Celeron processor w/ audio interface and DAW?

[gyle]

Would certainly appreciate some help. Here's my situation.

I decided to move from my Tascam 788 digital multitracker to a computer to do my recording (myself w/ vocal, guitar, piano, drum machine and I like to stack them in about 10-15 tracks). I bought a new computer and will only utilize it as a DAW, no internet connection, etc.

Specs:
HP Pavillion w/ an Intel Celeron 345 processor running at 3.06Ghz, 533Mhz front bus, 256kb L2 cache.
512MB PC3200DDR SDRAM
200GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA Hard Drive (will also utilize an external WD drive of 120GB)
XP Home edition service pack 2

Have I got a chance to successfully utilize an audio interface and software w/out delays, latency, pops, and other compromising issues? I'm worried about my processor being a Celeron.

If it will perform well, is their a particular audio interface and software that I should steer towards giving my computer situation (ie. products that are more friendly?).

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ford Van]

You shouldn't have any problems doing 16 audio tracks on that computer!

Okay, you could have problems, but they won't be the hardwares fault! That is more CPU than I have!!! I run 24 tracks all the time with lot's of plugin's.

 

[gyle]

Thanks for the reassurance....The Celeron processor, though pretty fast, was scaring me........I'm feeling better. Again, thanks.

 

[BigRay]

get some more RAM at least though..A gig at least. I have 4 gigs in mine.

Would certainly appreciate some help. Here's my situation.

I decided to move from my Tascam 788 digital multitracker to a computer to do my recording (myself w/ vocal, guitar, piano, drum machine and I like to stack them in about 10-15 tracks). I bought a new computer and will only utilize it as a DAW, no internet connection, etc.

Specs:
HP Pavillion w/ an Intel Celeron 345 processor running at 3.06Ghz, 533Mhz front bus, 256kb L2 cache.
512MB PC3200DDR SDRAM
200GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA Hard Drive (will also utilize an external WD drive of 120GB)
XP Home edition service pack 2

Have I got a chance to successfully utilize an audio interface and software w/out delays, latency, pops, and other compromising issues? I'm worried about my processor being a Celeron.

If it will perform well, is their a particular audio interface and software that I should steer towards giving my computer situation (ie. products that are more friendly?).

Thanks in advance.

 

[bitsandvolts]

Back in 2000, I did an 8 song demo on cakewalk pro audio 9. My specs at the time were:

Pentium 500
528mb ram
20gb 7200rpm hard drive

We were getting 16-18 tracks of audio on this setup, so long as we kept the realtime effects to a minimum. I had to do some destructuve editing and effecting...but regardless, the setup held pretty well.

If I pushed it beyond that, we would get dropouts....but staying within the above mentioned 16-18 tracks, we were golden.

So having said that, your workstation could probably hold up to some abuse...

 

[Ford Van]

get some more RAM at least though..A gig at least. I have 4 gigs in mine.

Unless he is going to be running softsynth's, more RAM really isn't going to do anything for him.

 

[bgavin]

I have no love for Celeron processors. Aside from this, you can get a significant performance boost from one of these by using the following tweaks to removed eye candy and unnecessary services.

Link to WinXP DAW Tweaks

The above link is a text file of my notes in outline form. I derived this from something I found somewhere on the net, but this is handy.

I reduced my memory footprint from 128mb to 53mb for an out-of-box XP/SP1 installation by using the above tweaks. It is not mentioned, but obvious, remove anti-virus software, firewalls, etc, etc. None needed for a dedicated DAW.