More memory ??

[Woolly1]

Can any of you guys (or gals) at this excellently informative site please tell me if adding more memory to my system will significantly reduce the amount of time taken to render captured VHS footage.

I`m running a P4 2.4, 128mb MSI GeForce 4 4800se & 512mb of 2100 DDR ram.

I`ve been told that this operation is `number crunching` performed mostly by the CPU and that adding more ram would not be that noticeable.

Any thoughts/ideas would be gratefully rec`d.

Thx.

[barrybear]

No is the definative answer. Realy you are realying on prossesor speed than the ability of extra ram. I uped my ram from 250 to 500 megs and it made no diferance atall on the time it takes ulead to render a dvd/mpg file.

Barry

[Bob W]

512MB is just fine. If your'e having rendering glitches I would make sure your hard drive has DMA enabled and also defrag the drive.

[Woolly1]

Thanks guys you`ve save me spending some money I don`t have to.

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[Gazorgan]

512 is fine. Even going with faster RAM won't help you. The bottleneck is always the CPU, not memory or disk IO (unless you capture in HUFFYUV and have 5400 RPM drives).

[Woolly1]

As a point of interest I`ve noticed that the temperature of my CPU goes up by over 11deg Centegrade when it`s encoding, it must be doing a serious amount of work.

Thx again for the info guys.

[andkiich]

The biggest things for rendering are CPU and BUS speed. Hard Drive speed won't really matter as long as it can reasonable keep up with the CPU/BUS.

[lordsmurf]

You have plenty of RAM. Be sure your system is cooled properly, withy RAM heat spreaders, proper fans, hard drives are cooled or at least ventilated, and CPU fan/heatsink properly attached.