[zboy2854]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by musikman:
SO WHAT I AM BEING TOLD HERE IS THAT THE DELL DIMINSION 8200 P4 2.2 GHZ COMPUTER WITH 512MB OF RAM THAT I JUST BOUGHT IS USELESS???????.IT HAS NO NETWORK CARD OR ANYTHING EXTRA JUST A SOUND CARD, VIDEO CARD AND A MODEM WHICH IS WHAT THE COMPUTER I BUILT HAS. I JUST DONT HAVE ENOUGH HORSEPOWER TO PUSH 24 TRACKS. SO I SPENT MONEY ON THIS COMPUTER AND BEFORE I EVEN GET IT I FIND OUT THAT ITS NO GOOD! CAN SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME SUPPORT HERE ON WHETHER OR NOT THIS DELL WILL WORK? IM SURE THAT I WILL HAVE TO STRIP THE SYSTEM OF WINDOWS XP AND PUT MY OTHER WINDOWS ON IT BUT I FIGURED THAT WOULD BE ALL THAT I WOULD HAVE TO DO TO HAVE A KICKIN' SYSTEM. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IM WRONG ABOUT THIS.....musikman<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


First of all STOP SHOUTING! Second, you should still be able to get very good performance from a P4 2.2 Ghz machine provided that the motherboard included with the Dell does not contain an incompatible chipset. You need to find out what chipset is in the motherboard in the Dell to know whether you'll have problems or not. Also, do you have two hard drives in the system, one for your programs and one for your audio? If not, you'll have problems there.