I can easily run PTW or RealBand or BIAB using my AP2496 card and just the C: drive for everything. XP SP3 here, on a rather long in the tooth Athlon 64 with 1.5g ram in it. The drive is a 7200 rpm w/8 mb cache. ASIO forever.

At reasonable sampling rate, which is almost always 44.1 here. Trying for 96 may be pushing it, maybe that's his real problem, dunno.

The 2496 is only a two-input/two-output card, not counting the S/PDIF, which he is very likely not using anyway.

Save the second hard drive advice for those trying to use multichannel soundcards where the bandwidth will be much higher. That's not the problem here.


--Mac