Pentium II 350 adequate?

[gomanvangough]

I'm building a system with an ABIT BE6 II board (I've been reading the archives) but I can't afford PIII right now and don't want to use an adapter for Celeron to slot one. Faster PII's are not in stock but I found a PII 350mhz. (I am using Cakewalk 8 professional and Win95) Question: Will I notice a big difference between the 350PII and a 400PII? Shopping suggestions welcome.
TNX

 

[gaffa]

I'm not going to suggest any places to go, or give model numbers etc., but suffice to say that while the PII 400 WILL be faster than the pII 350, the difference wouldn't blow your socks off. I'm recording on a Cyrix
333 machine that is so full of other shit that I was suprised that the thing works, but it does, and reasonably well. It's all very nice to have the faster machine on the planet, if you can afford it...

As a suggestion, get Windows NT or 2000 instead of using Win95 - NT is far more stable and tends not to blow the whole computer away when one application crashes.

 

[rdpete]

PII 350 is what I have on my PC system, and its good....If you have a large amount of tracks with plug-ins, make sure your RAM is up there, and run your audio from a seperate drive. Otherwise its choke city.

A buddy of mine has a PII 333 with SCSI drives and totally pushes it to the limit. We both learned the hard way with regular consumer PC's and the weaknesses that are within'.

Just picture the super old wise man in that show Kung-Fu saying:

"Grasshopper, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.."

Ok, so that was more than .02 worth

rdpete