For one thing, Windows 2000 will better suite your needs if you are going to use Windows. It handles priorities and virtual memory FAR better. If there is a lot of disk activity and you are maxing out your CPU, you might consider using a SCSI controller and hard drive, this will off load the CPU a bit and the disk will handle the concurrent reads and writes better. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Stauffer" <JStauffe at StPaulSoftware.com> To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:17 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Performance of editing large files > I have a Athlon 500 with 384MB of RAM and ATA/66 disks. I edit large > files on it (700MB wav files on average). What it the best way to > increase performance of editing? IDE RAID? Upgrade mobo and install > 1GB of DDR RAM? Something else? (I am currently running Win98 because > I have only found one program (SoundForge) that allows me to mark > multiple sections for deletion and delete them all at once.) Thanks for > your advice. > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >