[road_runner]

Hi,
I've just built a computer for my son-in-law for his band to record with. I'm hoping you can look at the specs and tell me if there are any areas that might cause problems.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+
2 x 128kb L1 cache
2 x 1024kb L2 cache
2 x 1gig OCZ Platinum DDR2 800mhz RAM running in dual mode
320 Gb Seagate 7200rpm sata2 harddrive
ASUS DRW-1814BLT sata DVD burner
Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with 2000/1600 MT/s system bus nForce430 chipset



At the moment it only has the built in 5.1 Audio. We have a Behringer FCA202 audio interface.
Will a better audio card help the sound or does the Behringer bypass that by using the firewire connection?
I was thinking of a Sounblaster Audigy 2ZS or similar.

The Behringer came with Ableton Live, can you suggest any other software that might be suitable? Won't know for sure till we start recording, but I'd say initially at least all the effects will be produced before the signal hits the Behringer.