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?Should I Buy RAM w.o. a CUDA GPU
Need advice – can upgrade my 16gb to 32gb at a reasonable price – will it really make a big diff w.o. CUDA GPU?
P2 1080i, PPCS6 2010 Mac 12 core… I don’t “just edit”, I finish.
Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FLTRI EA5 1974-1977
Convergence ECS1B 1977-1979
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Check your memory usage while you’re editing. On OSX, you can use Activity Monitor. If memory usage gets close to the limit, and the system seriously slows down – then yes, memory will likely be a more feasible upgrade. Otherwise – the GPU.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
Thats exactly what is happening . 15.96 gb out of 16gb yellow, active. I assume that means its also using my hard drive, which really slows things down. I went ahead an ordered the ram since the investment was much less than a gpu..so now I will have 32. Unreal!
Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FLTRI EA5 1974-1977
Convergence ECS1B 1977-1979
Sony BVE 500 1979 – 1984
Datatron Vanguard 1984 – 1993
GVG VPE141 1993 – 1998
Media 100 1995 – 2006
Final Cut Pro 2005 to not too much longer
Adobe Creative Cloud -
[peter tours] “Thats exactly what is happening . 15.96 gb out of 16gb yellow, active. I assume that means its also using my hard drive, which really slows things down.”
Yes, when memory gets full, the systems starts offloading chunks of memory to the hard drive, and that is a really slow process.
[peter tours] “I went ahead an ordered the ram since the investment was much less than a gpu..”
Good call.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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