Older and slower, yes. Faster than many brand new machines aimed at the facialbook browsing customer for perspective.
What latency are you running at? It sounds like you are doing post work (nothing live sound or live performance related) so you should set the block size to 1024 samples.
Are you on top of setting your sample rate and block size? The choices for what control panel to use and all that? Not sample rate converting any audio live in the project? This can be system critical and bring a powerful computer to its knees if left set to "I don't know". Post a screen shot of your Preferences/Audio/Device page settings.
After that I'd consider upping the ram to 6GB. (Even 4GB. 3 is riding the edge.) Oh, and 800MHz ram too! This is cheap to pick up nowadays.
At the end of the day, there will be a few of the heavy weight sampler or MIDI instrument plugins that might be show stoppers for you but this machine would still do a lot of 'meat n' potatoes' audio work.
Last edited by serr; 05-13-2018 at 06:57 AM.
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