Weird sound card question with a celeron!

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Hello,
I have been waiting to get a sound card for my computer, Now that I am ready to buy I'm getting mixed answers to my questons.
So here we go.

Does anyone here record with a Celeron based PC?
Is it over 2.0ghz?
I have a 2.4ghz Celeron machine with 640mb of ddr pc2100 ram, I want to use it with my copy of CoolEditPro 2.1 and either a Echo MIA MIDI or a M-audio AudioPhile 24/96 sound card.
Will one of those cards be compatable?
I asked a guy at guitar satan today and he said "I wouldnt recomend it, celerons are too slow"......... HUH!?

All I want to know is if the cards I have listed will work with a celeron?

Thanks in advance.
-Reco
 
Celerons are definately slower than the full blown Pentiums 4.
But too slow? That's a load of bullshit.
 
I've used both an MBox and a Tascam US122 on my laptop system, which is a 1.3Ghz Celeron. GC salesguy? Full of shit, as usual.

Actually, in Sandra my 1.3Ghz Celeron benches faster than a 1.6Ghz P4, seeing as how they both have 256k cache and the Tualatin architecture is more efficient than the P4 architecture.

I used to record with an AMD Duron 700Mhz using my Mia, and it still worked fine. Not a ton of tracks, but it worked. And the Duron is basically an AMD Celeron.
 
rico,

I started out with a PII-450Mhz / EchoMia soundcard and got as many as 30 tracks (16bit) to play simultaneously with no plugins. I could work comfortably with over a dozen tracks and a reasonable amount of plugins.

With the Mia, it's more important that your motherboard is compatible. Echo has a list on their website of known motherboard incompatiblities.

It would be WISE for you to check the manufacturers for these types of lists before buying ANY soundcard.
 
I have a 2.2GHz Celeron. I have trouble recording 5 or more tracks at a time but I think it could be the 5400rpm HD. Will find out when tax refund arrives if faster HD improves things.

But 4 tracks at a time or less - no problemo.
 
Used to run lots of stuff on my old old Celeron 566 oc'd to 1 gig. Then I brought the same setup (an audiophile and Cubase VST 5) into the new millennium with a 1 gig celery oc'd to 1.6. GOD I loved that thing. :) I had softsynths and tracks and effects everywhere, and never had a problem. My harddrive would give before my celery did...
 
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