Newbie with questions?

Hi! My name is John, and I am a musicaholic! Now that I got that out of the way. I picked up an older HP 8540w with Window's 7, 256 ssd and 8gb of of ddr3. I7 running at 2.6 ghz with turbo up to 3.3. I have installed Platinum, and working with a Focusrite 2i2. Off of the Focusrite I am going to run a Yamaha Mg10xu to mic my drums. I got gear and mics (everything but a good vocal mic, and I spent 2 hours reading a post the other day about the best bang for the buck on here). I did radio a long time ago, and my first studio at 13. I am not ancient, but I can still splice tape like nobody's business. I haven't recorded one thing yet, just installed all the software. My questions are: Does anyone think I will run into issues recording with this set up? Suggestions? I have other software questions about recording in Dolby surround and compatibility issues in Platinum, and Session Drummer 3, but I will post those in the software forum.I appreciate any and all feedback? Thanks for your time.

As for a vocal mic, I use a Rode NT1-A which is a nice, fairly inexpensive mic.  Comes with a decent shock mount and pop screen too.  But I also had mine modified by Michael Joly and now it's amazing.  Here's the link to his site if you want to check it out:
 
http://oktavamod.com/
 
 

Thanks for all the information. I will check out the Rode NT1-A, and check out latency MON by resplendence. I also think an external hard drive will be the way to go. Bios look good and all the drivers seem to be up to date. I would like to ask 1 other question? When you guys record your guitars, drums, bass (if you aren't using midi, or some other plug-ins or software), do you prefer to add your effects, like delay, chorus, compression, while doing a live track? Or do you run dry to the board (an old term I know) and mix there? My thought process is that if you have a good sound going in to begin with, there is less to do on the back end. Or, is this something I should post in another forum? Once again, thanks for all your help.

I try to do both record wet and dry. Sometimes the wet sound you get while recording is just awesome and sometimes, well... it isn't.
 
So, if you take a direct from your guitar to your interface, then out of your interface and through your pedals and into the Amp. Then Mic the Amp and record that. Now you have 2 tracks... guitar super dry direct from the guitar and mics in front of the guitar amp.
 
If the playing is awesome and the FX just aren't, you can now re-amp by sending the dry signal through all your FX and re-recording the amp or you can just use an amp simpleator in the computer. :P