Avoiding Upgrade Problems !

[Ian Greaves]

I recently got an ex-demo (5 month old) 16 channel PC set-up which I'm running with my Pro-Tools (v4.3) system on System 8.6 on a 9500/200 processor with 256Mb RAM.
I haven't had any of the fader problems described in other threads (Yet !) but perhaps I just haven't used the set-up enough yet (still getting the rest of my equipment connected, not enough interfaces etc.).
What problems am I likely to encounter with this set-up and in particular upgrading to PT5 ? Will it run ok on this system ? Is it fast enough ?
I'm holding on for a G4/500 based system later this year when the money appears - with expansion chassis - I have all 6 PCI slot used at the moment and I would like to be running 2 monitors.