Memory Question

kdk2002 wrote on 7/18/2002, 2:57 PM

I have an Athlon XP1600 with 512KB of DDR2100 memory and it works pretty well. I'm thinking about upgrading to 1MG of memory. This reason for this would only be to see if Vegas runs faster, mainly in rendering. Does anyone have any thoughts/experience to relate?

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Chienworks wrote on 7/18/2002, 3:07 PM

It probably will make a tiny difference in rendering time, but not enough to notice. The big advantage will be from longer dynamic pre-renders. With 1MB of RAM you should be able to prerender about 3 minutes worth!

BillyBoy wrote on 7/18/2002, 7:20 PM

I "borrowed" a full GB of DDR memory yesterday from a buddy and added it to the 512 MB I already had and as expected there was only a minor improvement in rendering speed.

I suspect the reason is if you have a fairly fast system the speed at which memory pages are switched from RAM and in and out of the paging file is far faster then frames can be rendered, so even adding tons more of RAM won't help to any noticable extend for rendering. Having a faster CPU will for sure and a dual CPU system will have impact on rendering times to.

There's the doorbell... I but someone wants his RAM back. LOL!

snicholshms wrote on 7/18/2002, 11:41 PM

Yeah, I've been told that CPU speed determines render time. RAM doesn't have much effect on rendering speed.

kdk2002 wrote on 7/19/2002, 9:57 AM

Thanks for your responses. This is what I figured. I'll save my money for the new AMD Hammer chip later this year!