Serious Lag

[Byron]

Hi

Downloaded n-track....the lag indicator just keeps increasing, so I can only record one track....I'm assuming the problem is my cheapy sound card?? Any recommendations on a new one? (I'm using a P133, 32mb RAM)

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Salabim]

the problem possibly (maybe not though) could be in your machine...

i have a 333Mhz 32Mb RAM and after 6 or 7 tracks it starts to drop its guts...

 

[Even]

I agree, I bet that the machine needs to either be beefed up a bit, or have a boadload of useless files cleared out. 64 megs of ram would sweeten things up a bit.

 

[Byron]

Ok, Thanks.

I was going to put in a new hard drive anyway (have 1.2G, almost full) so I'll double my Ram while I'm at it and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Oh boy. You're pissing your money away if you try to upgrade anything on that old beast except the hard drive.

You have options my friend. Intel Celeron processors...400Mhz+...$50-90. 128MB Kingston PC100 SDRAM = $95. Nice new motherboard = $120. New case (yes you need it most likely) = $50. I recently upgraded a Pentium 100 with 64MB to a Celeron 466 on an Asus P3B-F motherboard equipped with 128MB PC100 in a brand spanky new case for $380 with shipping. Adding a nice 20GB 7200RPM hard drive will run you another $160 or so. The nice thing about an upgrade like this is that a little further down the road you can stick a PIII-800Mhz in there without replacing the memory or motherboard...and it's plenty fast for today's applications.

Slackmaster 2000