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Is 2 gigs of ram worth it for PPro
Wondering if the extra price of 2 gigs instead of 1 gig improves rendering times to make it worhwhile?
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6 Replies
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I’m of the “you can’t have too much RAM” school. I think it’s a great place to invest additional money.
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I agree with Ralph, but RAM does not do the rendering, the CPU does.
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I have 2-gig, and editing large amounts of uncompresed clips and/or stills then rendering to MPEG-2 will use up ALL the RAM eventually. I know this because I always have FreeRAM monitoring in the tray at the bottom of screen. If I could afford it I would have gone 4-gig (4 x 1-gig sticks)
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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If the cpu does the rendering, does anyone know (on a scale of 1-10 with 10 the fastest) how fast an Athlon 3500+ is with what’s available today. Single chip machine? Thanks.
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I recently chamged from a P4 3.0Gig to an Athlon 3500 64 bit. I did a render test before switching on the P4, and then rendered the same piece with the new chip. Had 2 gigs of Ram in both. The Athlon actually rendered about 1 minute slower. But programs (especially Premiere and Photoshop) load much faster on the Athlon. All in all I am pretty happy with it.
Ken
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one minute slower is huge. what was the total render time?
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