What is the limiting factor, CPU speed or RAM?

[teainthesahara]

Hi everyone,

I've got an older laptop (e.g. 3.5 years!) that i do some audio processing with (using wavelab); some plugins seem to really eat up DSP (e.g. waves RVERB), and if I've got enough things going at once, the audio gets 'choppy'. The computer has a 500MHz celeron chip and 256MB's of RAM. My question is, what is the limiting factor here as far as processing audio with plugins. Would an upgrade to 512MB solve some of my audio symptoms, or is the CPU speed simply too slow ?

Thanks,
T

 

[Emeric]

CPU Speed is too slow.

 

[teainthesahara]

Thanks Emeric,
I save the $$$ instead of buying RAM....

T

 

[Teacher]

and its a shitty CPU...celeron duron ala cheap processors aren't good for computer recording need Pentiums and Athlons

 

[Gidge]

Ive heard some great shit recorded on Celeron based DAW's.......