Recording music w/G5 or other Macs, Delta 66 audio card or other?

I have a 3 yr old G5 which was a machine I originally leased for some basic in-home music production. I use M-audio's Delta 66 card in it with their mixer. I might upgrade the G5, but the sound card doesn't work with Intel Macs (yet). The recording is pretty basic, maybe live voice and keyboard and then mixing with Ableton Live or GB, using some loops, etc. The G5 may be more of a machine than I need for this. At the time, it was just a chance to get the most powerful Mac, but do I need it for this? This is really more of a music production question, but these boards are always a source of good Apple info, so what the heck.....
thanks!

Just a quick follow-up. Today at work I was able to capture onboard audio with Audacity by using a male to male mini cable and looping from the audio out into the audio in port of my Powermac G5. I didn't spend a lot of time with it but basically I captured some Internet radio as a test. It sounded OK for what it was. So maybe that's not the best way but it will work in a pinch. I also sent in a purchase request for multiple seats of Audio Hijack Pro.
TC
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