The last music computer I built has a AMD athlon 1.2, 1Gb pc133 ram, 40Gig 7200 RPM Hard drive. All these componets are at a very good price now. I use an Audigy 2 sound card. I run NI's B4 and DX7. Never drops a note and latency is not an issue. I use WIN98se so I don't Have the 2000 and XP problems. This computer is used only for music programs nothing else.
Just the way I see it, Smokey