PHarker
heres my best advice before you do anything...

1. run latency mon which will assess your pc's suitability for music productions.

https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

2. post your stats for following.

..boot from cold into win 11 time.
(I'm bout 4 secs.)
..click on biab icon...how long for biab chord sheet to appear.
(i'm bout 4 secs again.)
..when you generate a biab song is there a long lag before you hear playback.?
(here practically v little lag.)

frankly you can get nice 3ghz refurb pc's for under 200 bucks with lots of memory n' ssd drives. the markets flooded. run latency mon if you can prior to buying.

i personally just upgraded to a new ryzen 7 mini pc
(not a refurb ..it cost 400 buks.)
latency mon shows one of the lowest core latencies on the market. so far i love it. it hasnt annoyed me.
(i used to use refurbs.)

i would start with latency mon and then post back result.

ps in realband you can test also how many traks you can get. please post what TEST PERFORMANCE says.

hth/best

om


Last edited by justanoldmuso; 03/04/23 12:19 PM.
New Song "PRETTY GIRL" for my wife...Dec 2023
(my vocs....mixed for good earbuds.)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs/prettygirlrbfinalcalfsongsdec2023mp3
(and rock song THE STALLION and bluegrass song... BANKER MAN....90 songs useing bb/rb.)