RAM: How much do you have of it?

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RAM: How much do you have of it?

Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:58 pm

I think this is an important question. :P How much RAM do you have in your Hardware? Did you never faced problems like crashes, slowness or frustrating lags in the programs you use? I would like to know how much RAM do you have, and how much do you think it's important when editing.

Sorry for the technical thread. ;O But I think it'll be useful. :roll:
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Re: RAM: How much do you have of it?

Postby dokidoki » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:02 pm

Michele wrote:I think this is an important question. :P How much RAM do you have in your Hardware?

256MB. Was 128 until a year and a half ago.
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Re: RAM: How much do you have of it?

Postby Zero Link » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:02 pm

Michele wrote:I think this is an important question. :P How much RAM do you have in your Hardware? Did you never faced problems like crashes, slowness or frustrating lags in the programs you use? I would like to know how much RAM do you have, and how much do you think it's important when editing.

Sorry for the technical thread. ;O But I think it'll be useful. :roll:


a virus hit my computer just yesterday. So I had to delete everything from my computer.. a system restore. So now my computer is like it was when I first bought it.. and to think, yesterday was my computer's 1 year anniversery.
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Postby JudgeHolden » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:31 pm

2 gigs ......... and 1 trig of HD space now .... :shock:
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Postby Tormentor » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:33 pm

I have got 512mb RAM and still it's too few for programms like premiere and co.... One ought to have at least 512 I would say, optimum would be 2giga if you ask me.
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Postby Castor Troy » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:35 pm

1 gig and I need another gig more. :?
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Postby Knowname » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:36 pm

1 gig, 2 512mb sticks. I bought 2 1 gig sticks last month... just too lazy to install them lol...
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Postby ssj4lonewolf » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:37 pm

Castor Troy wrote:1 gig and I need another gig more. :?

Same here castor unfortunatly....go go go income tax loot, and the p4 extreme ed bout to be bulit with it.
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Postby Knowname » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:41 pm

ssj4lonewolf wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:1 gig and I need another gig more. :?

Same here castor unfortunatly....go go go income tax loot, and the p4 extreme ed bout to be bulit with it.


lmao that's how I got my other gig, Raptor HDD and HDTV ;p
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Postby DriftRoot » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:44 pm

It's not so much the RAM when editing, it's the RAM when editing with which program - among other factors related to slowness and crashing like your processor, HD cleanliness etc. One person's tolerance for slowness/crashing will be different from someone else's, too.

I've got 750 RAM or so, any less and I would not be able to deal with the frustration of working with 18.6 GB of footage. This is in Premiere Pro, btw, and it regularly gives me memory errors every half hour or so, necessitating complete exit of the program. This isn't necessarily a crash, I've never *knocks very loudly on wood* lost any data or had my computer freeze up on me, but it definately brings my work to a screeching halt because these errors prevent me from rendering, among other things.
When memory errors aren't happening, simple effects render fairly quickly (no thumb twiddling), but applying something like particle effect fire to a 4 second clip can take my poor computer about an hour. No fire for me!

My computer also has difficulty handling so much footage, though I blame some of it on Premiere. After working for 15 minutes or so, about a half to two-thirds of the thumbnails in my bins (and when played on the monitor) turn black unless I restart the program. This makes browsing through all my clips difficult, at times.

I don't use my main HD for a scratch disk, btw, I save my 80 GB external drive for that and all my autosaves. That other drive has made a huge difference in workflow.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:23 pm

640MB It's enough for this system because i've reached my personal point of diminishing returns with it (it's a low-end Dell laptop). When/if I ever have the money, I was looking into server MotherBoards spicifically for RAM capacity of 8+ GB
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Postby JudgeHolden » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:31 pm

I've only had 2 gigs of ram .... so, for me it has been HD space .. that's what I always seem to need more of since I try to keep my last 3 or so projects (for exporting to cons).

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Postby Knowname » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:50 pm

DriftRoot wrote:It's not so much the RAM when editing, it's the RAM when editing with which program - among other factors related to slowness and crashing like your processor, HD cleanliness etc. One person's tolerance for slowness/crashing will be different from someone else's, too.


A64 procs work better with 1 gig ram sticks as well, so I hear. Also if you don't have two identicle sticks of ram these days, your just crazy o.0
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Postby Pie Row Maniac » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:52 pm

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Re: RAM: How much do you have of it?

Postby Scintilla » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:21 pm

SSJ3 Son Jp wrote:
Michele wrote:I think this is an important question. :P How much RAM do you have in your Hardware? Did you never faced problems like crashes, slowness or frustrating lags in the programs you use? I would like to know how much RAM do you have, and how much do you think it's important when editing.

Sorry for the technical thread. ;O But I think it'll be useful. :roll:

a virus hit my computer just yesterday. So I had to delete everything from my computer.. a system restore. So now my computer is like it was when I first bought it.. and to think, yesterday was my computer's 1 year anniversery.

That wouldn't change the amount of RAM you have. :?

I've got 1 GB from OCZ, running at 2.5-3-3-6 (I believe it can do 2-3-3-6 when I'm not overclocking).
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