Would 2 gigs of ram speed up Rendering time?

[snapware]

I currently have 1 gig of ram in my machine, would 2 gigs speed up rendering or i probably won't notice much of a difference? i generally use Sony Vegas.

I have an AMD Athlon 64 bit 3200 processor.

[redwudz]

You probably won't notice any difference. Encoding is 90+% the CPU speed. A little is the bus speed and hardly any the RAM amount. If you have 1Gb, you have more than enough.

The XP 64 OS can use more memory than 1Gb, but mostly for multitasking and otherwise really only if the program can use it. Photoshop for one can use extra memory. Encoding programs don't use that much. Check your 'Task Manager' while encoding and you can see what is being used.

[jagabo]

Not by any significant amount.

[edDV]

I once did a test and pulled memory sticks as a test for render time for Vegas and Premiere (both use Mainconcept). There was no difference between 512MB and 1GB RAM.

I still use 1GB RAM because I often have several applications like Photoshop and browsers open at once with multiple files loaded to memory.

[guns1inger]

I have 1GB of ram. During multi-pass encodes with CCE, the encoder uses around 370 - 372MB consistently when taking input from avisynth. Encoding is mostly a CPU intensive (and therefore CPU bound) application.

[handyguy]

You could get a dual core machine.

[edDV]

or wait for quad core.

[mazinz]

I have 2 gigs ram (previous 1 gig) with a now out of date pent 4 1.80 gighertz pc.

Encoding time (I use tmpg for some things) was not speeded up, however after encoding was done (and this would go for dvd shrink as well) my pc was still fast and did not "drag" (which it previously would do) in turn making me do a system restart to clear it all out.

As with some other apps if you can afford it and it wont kill you the upgrade can help in certain ways, but not so much for the method you are asking about.

[INFRATOM]

The speed of a computer is mostly a combination of optimization. But the major factor is CPU RAM utilization and hardrive speed and also depends how much process is running on your computer. I suggest try Sandra it has a free version that is enough to show the relative speed of each module. One learns a lot by going through it and see your computer info and benchmarks.
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/
The free version is great , the pro version has some extra evaluation stuff for IT admin and networking.