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| 689889 | 2008-07-17 11:54:00 | Hello, A bit of research has told me that fast ram can be a bit of a waste of money as the performance gains are only incremental. However I did read someone saying that fast memory is good for specialist applications like video encoding. Thus my question is, is it worth while to upgrade my 333mhz DDR2 Ram in order to improve my computers handling of the high def signal through my HVR-4000? I am still getting a bit blurry on the TV3 1080i (& on C4 too sometimes). Would faster RAM help in this application? I will mostly be using Powercinema but may be able to use GBPVR. I never was successful in getting the graphics card to do the work, still stuck with CPU doing too much. By the way: Windows XP 8600GT 3.2 gig dual core AMD Asus M2A-Vm HDMI 2 gig DDR2 333mhz 1 |
RusEvo (3572) | ||
| 689890 | 2008-07-17 12:43:00 | I don't think faster RAM will help. You really need to get the 8600GT doing the work displaying the FreeviewHD signal. Have you been on www.geekzone.co.nz and had a look at their forums as there is heaps of info about this? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 689891 | 2008-07-17 13:21:00 | I DO think faster ram would help! Supports AMD Socket AM2+/AM2 for Phenom FX/Phenom/ Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron The motherboard supports AMD socket AM2+/AM2 for Phenom FX/Phenom/Athlon 64/ Sempron/Athlon 64 X2/ Athlon 64 FX/ processors with 2MB / 1MB / 512KB L2 cache, which is based on 64-bit architecture.It features 2000 MT/s HyperTransport1.0 Bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 1066 (AM2+) and DDR2 800 (AM2) memories support and AMD Cool ´n´ Quiet! Technology(From the ASUS page for your motherboard, see underlined passage, your present RAM is way underspeed, why did you put that in?; exactly what CPU do you have?, you should have at least DDR2-800 fitted :horrified (Do you mean DDR2-533 when you said DDR2-333 (as it doesn't appear to be available at that speed))? |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 689892 | 2008-07-17 13:33:00 | I DO think faster ram would help! (From the ASUS page for your motherboard, see underlined passage, your present RAM is way underspeed, why did you put that in?; exactly what CPU do you have?, you should have at least DDR2-800 fitted :horrified (Do you mean DDR2-533 when you said DDR2-333 (as it doesn't appear to be available at that speed))? They probably ment ddr2-533 or ddr2-667. But when you can run an AMD Sempron CPU (www.tomshardware.com) and use a graphics card with hardware acceleration for .h264 video or HD/Blu-ray and not have any problems then I don't think the speed of the RAM matters too much. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 689893 | 2008-07-17 22:26:00 | I believe power cinema won't use hardware h.264 acceleration, GB-PVR & DVB-Viewer using the power DVD codec will. The geekzone forums mentioned have more detail on this. If TV3 & TV4 are only blurry sometimes bear in mind most of the content is still not HD and is being upscaled, TV4 especially is not broadcasting HD a lot of the time ( DVB-Viewer usually lists it as 720x576 which is PAL SD resolution ). Faster RAM is unlikely to make a noticeable difference |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 689894 | 2008-07-18 09:14:00 | I think this analysis explains it: i2.photobucket.com I bought the first slow RAM before I realised what was what. The second is still cheap G-Skill RAM, but even if its better its still a slave to the weakest link. My CPU is an AMD 6400+Dual Core at 3.2......which is new and only made a modest change in the TV3 blurryness over my 4000+ dual core at 2.1 (dissapointing). My next port of call is to check if RAM is a prob, if not that then to get GBPVR working, then the only other option is to fork out for Vista (which I dont wanna do). |
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