breathesteve

Optimizing New G5

I just opened up my new G5 from the box. Ahhh such a good feeling. Plugged it all in and switched it on. What a beautiful piece of machinerey. Its a bit bigger and heavier than my G4. I also picked up a 250 gig external hard drive, which I will use to transfer and store my old audio files. So...as a music producer do any of you have advice as to how to optimize the performance of my new G5? Cheers!

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Cpu/memory Issues

I've recently added a few things to my 3 yr old G4. A new stick of RAM, for a total of 1.25GB, Logic 7 upgrade, and also a Delta 44 Soundcard. Lately the performance of my computer is really bad. I can't even have more than 2 audio/instrument tracks playing in Logic without the audio turning really crappy (distortion, low fidelity). The CPU meters in both Logic and Apple's Activity monitor sky rocket fast when I press play in logic. The processing really backs up. Is there anything I can do make my computer perform faster? I have a G4 933Mhz with a 133Mhz front side bus so I thought I had enough power. Please help