RAM: How much do you have of it?

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Postby Devolution » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:00 pm

on my old celeron 900 i had 1gig of ram, since premiere ran like ass on anything less than that.

in my newer system, i ran 512 up until recently, when i "borrowed" another 512 stick from a friend of mine. but in all honesty i haven't noticed a large performance increase when running premiere or photoshop (not like with my 900...the difference between 512 and 1gig on that system was like night and day). i'm sure Combustion3 would love it, but i haven't had a chance to run it on the new setup yet.
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Postby Hauntedcow » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:05 pm

JudgeHolden wrote:Ya, that's the ticket! lol


yea, I hope I didn't sound rude, my comments on forums are sometimes taken in offense for some reason.
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:16 pm

I currently have 512 MB of Ram and I'm think about going up to a 1 GB. I just had my computer crash today, because I used up all my Ram. Priemere is evil. Or I should restart my computer everyday instead. That may be helpful. I'm just lazy that I don't feel like doing it. :roll: I think 512 should be enough to run everything. Just need to refresh your computer more often, but 1 GB would be nice.
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Postby x_rex30 » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:22 pm

dual xeon.. 2x2gb=4.. so yeah.. I guess I have 4.
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Postby mrsir115 » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:28 pm

AMD Athalon XP 2400+ 2.4GHZ (not overclocked) with 1024MB of ram and a huge whopping 40gb harddrive ( i wasted all my money on the ram so I had to settle for that)

My Production server however is a PIII 1.0GHZ with 640MB of ram and runs like a dream with my very old 80GB that makes funny sounds from time to time!

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Postby [Mike of the Desert] » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:12 am

Thanks a lot to everyone for your answers. =) Ok, so if I understood well, to be able to edit you can go from 512MB to 2GB, even if I'm been surprised to see that a 3GB of RAM space didn't changed the situation, even if the performance should be the same as is been said, I think that the probability of Program Crashing is terribily lower than with 512MB or 1GB. On my older System, before it auto-destroyed itself, I was running with 1GB, but if I'll be able to get a new one I'll go with 2. Thanks to everyone, your answers are been illuminating. =P

mexicanjunior, did you never tried to edit on your laptop? :?:
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Postby Shinodude » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:23 am

1 gig I need more :( no mony to get more though
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Postby gangstaj8 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:20 pm

Hauntedcow wrote:yea, I hope I didn't sound rude, my comments on forums are sometimes taken in offense for some reason.


I take offense to that... [/sarcasm]

Driftroot mentioned the importance of keeping your HDD in some form of cleanliness, which I agree is extrememly important when working with especially large files. I'm editing with Premiere 6 on 512MB, without any problems whatsoever, even with Photoshop running. Well, except maybe when I push too many buttons at once and my computer farts. But I had previously been using WMM2 with continuous problems, I don't know how anyone actually manages that program after all the trouble it gave me. I would like to upgrade to 1GB of RAM just for safety concerns though, maybe the tax man will be kind this year...
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Postby Knowname » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:26 pm

Melanchthon wrote:Had 256MB of RAM until today and never had any problems (I use Magix Edit Pro 2004, which for me is a very well-behaved program). I've now got 768MB RAM, and I'm debating whether I should pick up another 512MB while I can still get it hassle-free for £39.


Premeire is very stable for me. Nothing but occasional hickups since Premeire 5 on 256mb ram. Many complaints, I've found (about everything from premeire to lousy name brands like my deathstar hdd I had for 2 years running or various maxtors I had for DECADES... I still use my 8 gig! Or my off brand TV I've had for 6 months) are from enthusiasts or noobs that use their stuff for more than their supposed to. Sure, I can't overclock, but I get by on their refurbed wares ;p.
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Postby Hauntedcow » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:39 pm

Knowname wrote:
Melanchthon wrote:Had 256MB of RAM until today and never had any problems (I use Magix Edit Pro 2004, which for me is a very well-behaved program). I've now got 768MB RAM, and I'm debating whether I should pick up another 512MB while I can still get it hassle-free for £39.


Premeire is very stable for me. Nothing but occasional hickups since Premeire 5 on 256mb ram. Many complaints, I've found (about everything from premeire to lousy name brands like my deathstar hdd I had for 2 years running or various maxtors I had for DECADES... I still use my 8 gig! Or my off brand TV I've had for 6 months) are from enthusiasts or noobs that use their stuff for more than their supposed to. Sure, I can't overclock, but I get by on their refurbed wares ;p.


I've had several times where I have had up to 3 instances of Premiere running, Virtual dub rendering things, photoshop open, and a lot of other things going. I usually export videos I edit more technically section by section, it helps with troubleshooting the video a lot. Like my last film I made, I exported by scene, then combined the scenes in another project. Keeps things from getting messy and near impossible to find. One of my films I cut in one project, and any video clip was very hard to dig and find without watching the video until you got to it.
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Postby DriftRoot » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:59 pm

Knowname wrote:
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


I'm only pointing out that a heck of a lot of other things besides your RAM can cause slow down/crashing problems. And not everyone has a computer built within the past three or four years - older, standard machines have a harder time with high-end AMVing than their newer counterparts. Yes, you can create AMVs on older computers (people have been doing it for years and years, after all), but the experience is going to be quite different on a newer machine.

Sort of like taking a 15-year-old dog and a puppy for a walk on the beach. All three of you are going to enjoy the outing and make it from one end of the beach to the other. One dog grey and stiff, however, has its own agenda and won't be running three miles to your every one, while the other is quite fresh and new, exploding with potential and turning inside out to tackle even impossible tasks (i.e. chasing piping plovers and actually believing it can catch them). The possibility of the older dog having a heart attack during a particularly strenuous dash also is much higher.

I'd say my computer is entering its silver years. *sigh* One of these days I'll have to max out my RAM to see how far I can push it - a power wheelchair for an aging PC.
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Postby Hitori » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:34 pm

1.5 gigs for my editing system.
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Postby Beefy_Suavo » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:05 pm

In my Windows computer: 512 MB because that's the most the chipset can handle. Put in any more and it still says 512 MB.

In my Power Mac G5: 8 GB.
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Postby Corran » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:24 pm

I completed my second video on a laptop with 256MB. My current system has 2GB. Other computer specs if interested can be found on my profile page.
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Postby madbunny » Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:22 am

At home: 1 gig.
At work: 2 gig

the workstations I've run have had as little as 128mb (they were unhappy), but generally seem to do just fine on 512. I've had better luck with using faster hard drives than upgrading ram (to a point) when it comes to working with premiere. I can't really tell the difference between 1 and 2 gig to be honest.
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