Octocore configuration

[Stefan Boyland]

I am buying an 8 Core system and trying to figure out if I should get 8GB of RAM or 16GB of RAM.

I use Final Cut Pro, Motion and Shake quite a bit.

Anyone know if 16GB is overkill or will it speed things up in Motion and Shake in particular?

Thanks-

[Mark Maness]

16 gig is alot. But do you do alot of Shake? Shake is the only program that will really benefit from more RAM. The others use RAM for various tasks but are not dependent on it like Shake. Everything else uses the GPU.

So…. I’d say stick with 8 gig of RAM and buy the largest and best graphics card you can buy. Motion will thank you for this. By the way, FXplugs uses your graphics card GPU only to work so if you are looking at these plugins – the graphics card is extremely important.

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[Stefan Boyland]

I heard Motion also can utilize more than 8GB of RAM, even the full 16GB for more real time effects…is that true as far you know?

Also, I do not imagine this extra RAM from 8 to 16GB would effect Compressor would it?