[Jesus Suarez]

[Melvin Chong] “My advice to you again is not to skim on ram if you intend to work professionally 2D/3D professionally. 16Gb is the barest minimum for a modern hungry OS like Windows. The more memory headroom you have, the less problems you’ll face down the road.”

Yes, and I appreciate your suggestion. I knew I was probably going to find problems with Ryzen when I made my decision and yes, I also knew I was most likely going to feel a performance hit when going with low Ram, but it allowed me to put more money into GPUs which I use for rendering as well. It’s about balance and I didn’t get enough RAM at the moment but I will be able to add more soon. Right now I am able to work, maybe not as fast and as seamlessly as i do on my intel machine at work, but so far the system has paid for itself.

Ryzen is a fairly new architecture, I give you that, but I did do my research and people were having a lot of good comments and experiences with it, so it seemed like a good choice. And it is, there’s just things to tighten up like you said and that will come with time of course… I didn’t start this thread to bitch about it, and if it seemed like that, I apologize, I was just looking for some help and suggestions on what to do. Just wanted to clear that up.

Since you’ve already specified what you do for a living and said that you know what you are talking about, do you know much about populating all 4 dimms slots on Ryzen boards? I’ve been trying to find a straight answer about this, but since march I haven’t found anything concrete…have the problems with 4 sticks of ram been resolved?

Some people seem to be running 4 sticks without problems, but others say windows will not post, anything you know about that? I would like to be able to just add more ram to my system and be certain that it will run, I don’t mind setting my memory to a lower frequency but i would like to keep my current 16gb.

[Jesus Suarez]

I think before suggesting me to think about my career you should try and not be so quick to judge If I or anyone else didn’t spend more money on certain hardware it’s because there’s a reason. I appreciate your answer and it’s not that i convinced about others answers, i’m just trying to be certain about the bottleneck and yes, everything seems to point out to more RAM but there’s so many weird issues with Ryzen that i’m just not 100% sure that’s going to cut it and sorry, maybe you are in the same industry as me and have lots of money to spend to test things out, but I certainly do not have $200 to throw at something i’m not certain it’s going to solve the issue.

[Jesus Suarez]

[Michael Szalapski] “The AE team has said that they intend to bring a new, better, faster rendering system to AE. We have seen some of it in the GPU-acceleration of native effects in the past couple of releases, but they’re nowhere near done with it yet.”

Thank you for the thorough reply, I appreciate it. Anything you can recommend then? Should I just give up and know that this is an After Effects thing and that it won’t make the most out of my 8 cores until new releases come?

People keep saying that I need more RAM but I can’t throw that kind of money just to the “test”. What do you think? I know you are pretty respected/knowledgeable in the Creative Cow and Adobe Forums community.

[Jesus Suarez]

[Walter Soyka] “Ae’s performance is heavily dependent on RAM. You can’t meaningfully compare the two CPUs when the systems have different amounts of RAM.”

If only I could test this out…but I can’t just buy more RAM without knowing it will actually help. My RAM at home is a lot faster than my RAM at work (3200 vs 2133) wouldn’t that make a difference?

[Jesus Suarez]

[Tero Ahlfors] “If you want to use multiprocessing you’ll need to use AE CC2014. The latest one doesn’t have it yet.”

hmm, interesting, so they upgrade the software but degrade the performance? wtf?