Hello all. I'm about to upgrade from 8.5.3 to X3 Producer, and wanted to make sure my PC can handle it. My specs seem to be OK, but I'm no computer guy, and wanted to draw on your expertise. Will this box run X3 smoothly? Thanks in advance.
 
Regards,
 
Bob
 
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As with everything, it depends completely on what you'll be doing. Can you boot X3? Sure. Can you record audio and midi, and use a few fx and plugins, sure. Your RAM and CPU are limited for a modern DAW but you could definitely make music with it.

I'm not doing anything elaborate, but I do use samples and effects - so this computer isn't really up to it?

So, I guess I will just have to stick with 8.5.3. Can't see buying a new computer just to run one program. Bummer.

if u can add another 4gb ram it will make a big difference...

If 8.5.3 is running fine and you don't run into limits very often, going to X3 should be fine and give you somewhat similar performance.

I'm with Sanderxpander. If you are running 8.5.3 okay going to X3 should be okay, although more horsepower never hurts of course.

I ran X1 and X2 on a system with similar specs with no problems. Used samples and effects (fairly modestly) and other programs as well. Like dlion16 says, I eventually added 4GB of RAM and things got faster. I agree with Sanderxpander that it should be OK.

Excellent. I will go ahead then. Will also shop for more RAM. Thanks everyone.
 
Regards,
 
Bob

It should work fine. Like everyone here has said more ram will speed things up. There are other things you can do to improve your performance. You can configure your computer to squeeze even more system resources from it.
 
Things like turning off apps that run in the background and turning off programs that start up that you don't need for recording help. Turning off the User Control Settings, power saving options and unplugging from the internet and turning off internet apps that run in the background will help you get more performance.
 
I did these types of things with with a computer with similar system specs and got better performance from X1 and X2.
 
This really helps when using CPU intensive programs as it frees up system resources.