Would say if you want to do audio on your PC you’d be better off with a pro sound card – the x-fi’s are ok, and support ASIO, but they’re still not a patch on a good pro card – something like one of the good M-audio cards, or if you’re on a low budget, one of the Emu cards (which are owned by Creative, and are available fairly cheaply these days, but have much better interface options, a more comprehensive ASIO mixer interface with better hardware effects etc than the Soundblaster cards (which are designed to be all round cards rather than specific audio creation tools))….
Not using Vista is also good advice – it’s a monstrous resource hog, and general pain in the rear end to set up properly… XP is a much better option, as it has tried and tested drivers and software (even Cubase hardly crashes at all these days on XP :wink:)…
Strange that Dell don’t include 4 pin molex’s on your PSU though – considering that most kit (including a lot of SATA kit) uses them… Sounds like Dell going back to their old ways of making their customers upgrade through them – thought they’d learnt that lesson a while ago… All it does is drive their customers away next time they get a PC :you_crazy
