Ram Render a God send...

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2005, 5:59 AM

I jsut got an extra 512mb ram (bringing me to 1gb, duel channel!) & am editing mpeg-2 files to be put on DVD. Normally this requires a lot of preview renders because transitions/cuts/etc are so choppy & mpeg's don't edit well.

Well, now I can ram-render whole short segments & it's amazing! I can check transitions much faster! :)

I love this!

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JJKizak wrote on 11/5/2005, 8:35 AM

We all love it, but we continue to push the envelope for more and more and more amd more.

JJK

Grazie wrote on 11/5/2005, 9:04 AM

. .yesh master .. yesh, master . . .. more power . .MORE POWER ! ! ! !

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2005, 6:59 PM

yes... amd needs more power. :)

I'm also looking into ramdisks. I had great success with them in DOS but Win2k & up doesn't support them anymore. I'm thinking if I got 4gb of ram, a 2gb ram disk would be a great temp drive. :)

fldave wrote on 11/5/2005, 7:07 PM

I just thought of that today. RAM disk. Perfect for the short HD clips I'm working with. I didn't know that Win2K or XP didn't support them.

I'll do some research.

Infinite5ths wrote on 11/5/2005, 10:22 PM

There is this thing from GigaByte (the motherboard manufacturer) call "iRAM" for this purpose.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=1&id=1725

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/

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Mike

fldave wrote on 11/6/2005, 8:16 AM

"i-RAM's throughput was 36 and 46 times higher than the Raptor"
"i-RAM's access speed at an incredible 0.048ms! Compared with a 10,000RPM hard drive, the i-RAM's response is at least about 168 times faster."

I can see that it would be good for temp file usage, Photoshop. But with Vegas, my bottleneck is the rendering, so clockspeed is the most important. Those Vegas users with lots of stills, many short clips, it might help. It can go up to 8GB now, also.

Hmm.

JJKizak wrote on 11/6/2005, 8:53 AM

What happens if you set the paging file up in it?

JJK

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/6/2005, 10:12 AM

not sure yet. But, theoreticly, it would be faster then writing to the HD all the time. you might have a slower startup though. It would need to re-make the page file on each boot. But if you don't re-boot often...