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| Thread ID: 58235 | 2005-05-25 17:21:00 | How much ram do you have and what type of ram are you using? | Ninjabear (2948) | Press F1 |
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| 358490 | 2005-05-25 17:21:00 | I know most of you would have 1gb ddr sdram but would it boost much performance for a intel 3ghz computer to have 2gb ddrsdram? Would it make much performance in terms of incoding movies? Would all 1Gb ram be used to incode movies or is there a maxiumum about xp allows certain amount of ram be used? Im sure there should be no limit... |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 358491 | 2005-05-25 19:05:00 | well I dont got a gb of ram I usually only have 512mb in the system altho occasionally I'll chuck another stick in just for fun. AS for video encoding nope i dont believe that doubleing your ram is gonna do much at all it'll only perhaps allow you to do something else as well when you are encoding..........how about playing around wiht hyperthreading, try turning it off for encoding it may 'focus' the cpu a bit better on that single task. | drcspy (146) | ||
| 358492 | 2005-05-25 20:46:00 | I know most of you would have 1gb ddr sdram but would it boost much performance for a intel 3ghz computer to have 2gb ddrsdram? Would it make much performance in terms of incoding movies? Would all 1Gb ram be used to incode movies or is there a maxiumum about xp allows certain amount of ram be used? Im sure there should be no limit... 1GB of DDR2. The more ram you have the more programs you can run at the same time without the swap file kicking in too much and slowing things down. Also Dual Channel has to be a must if you want real speed. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 358493 | 2005-05-25 22:45:00 | Video-encoding uses 100 percent of system resources, Its a very intensive task for any computer to take on, The faster components and more resources you have the quicker the job will be done. 2GB of ram should give a performance increase provided you have the cpu,harddrives and motherboard to match it (by this I mean a well balenced system with no bottlenecks, an unhealty OS could be termed a bottleneck as well) Dual channel will give minimal increase in performance, possibly a couple of minutes knocked off a job that takes hours (Shock horrer, there are "budget" nforce2 boards out there that only suport single channel that outperform dual channel boards) |
Metla (12) | ||
| 358494 | 2005-05-25 23:31:00 | Video encoding is a CPU intensive task, and since the CPU is the bottleneck in this case there is nothing to be gained from adding ram. If while encoding you find the hard drive churning over due to paging and the CPU isn't at 100% then there would be something to be gained, but once you go over 1gb diminishing returns applies. 1gb is the sweet spot these days and unless you are running several memory intensive applications at once you don't really need any more. :) (that's not to say it isn't nice to have though ;)) edit: I have 1gb in single channel. Tried 1.5gb once but couldn't perceive any difference. |
Alexf2 (7807) | ||
| 358495 | 2005-05-25 23:32:00 | I have 1 Gb of DDR400 which is being used as dual channel.Whether I need it or not is another thing... | pctek (84) | ||
| 358496 | 2005-05-25 23:37:00 | I have 1.5 of ram runs fine, as for video encoding I usually hit the start button as I walk off to bed, that way I'm not tempted to play around while it's doing it's thing. | plod (107) | ||
| 358497 | 2005-05-26 08:14:00 | i think 4gb is the limit that xp accepts | Prescott (11) | ||
| 358498 | 2005-05-26 08:19:00 | And it also depends on how much the mobo can handle / go up to. Not all mobos can go to 4 GB. I use 1 GB of DDR on 2 PC's here |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 358499 | 2005-05-26 09:44:00 | I have 20Mb of ram on my lc 575 mac, and as they say its not the size that matters it's what you do with it, (I use it as a paper weight) Hmmmm, I feel quite inadaquete(spellingk), just as well the work machine has 500Mb, would doubling the ram (on the work machine) make a noticeable difference it has an nforce mobo asus a7n8X something xp2500+ and while we're at it would increasing the ram on the mac make a difference, it's quite a handy machine for the kids to use, but painfully slow online we're on bitstream but it crawls as if it's on dialup cheers |
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