Recommended amount of ram?

[nufan292]

I was wondering what the recommeded amount of ram would be for the following tasks to be performed?
DVD->DVDR (CCE and other prog. such as DVD2ONE)
DVD->Divx
AVI->DVDR
Any opinions would be great. Thank you for your time.

[elmolicious]

U can have all the ram in the world, but if you got a slow pc, it won't make much diff'


on the cheap side & good for speed i would recommend

Athlon 2100 & 2 sticks of 512 333mhz DDR

But then again you may already have a fast(ish) cpu, but u ain't given much in the way of details :)

[alucard2050]

Ram has little to do with it...CPU does most of the work...2 sticks of 133DDR will help very little as thats what i have now but when i upgraded from a 900mhz to a 1.5 thats when i noticed the difference...when it comes to ram i am able to use other programs simultaniously without bogging down my system, thats about it.......

[ZippyP.]

Having lots of ram doesn't really speed up conversions and, from what I understand anyway, having more than 512 MB doesn't speed up windows much either. Video conversion depends more on CPU speed than anything else. (Like alucard said.)

[nufan292]

Thank you to all that have responded. The reason that I ask is that I am currently thinking of getting a new laptop, debating between Dell inspirion 600m and lattitude d600. The thing is that the 600m is 738mb? max with a 64mb vid card, while the d600 has a max of 2gig and a 32mb vid card. If you were in my position which would you choose and why? I've got to be one of the most indecisive person around. Once again, thank you for your time.

[deadmonty]

Your choice of OS is also important when considering memory. Win95/98/ME cannot use correctly more than 512 Mb of memory. Any more than 512 Mb of memory will affect the way these operating systems use system resources and can actually slow the machine down.

This problem does not affect Linux and NT variants.

Paul

[Jester700]

You sure about that 600m figure? Any new laptop should take at least a gig, and the latitude & inspirons are practically twins.

That said, I'd get whatever is the better deal on other factors. I'd bet you wouldn't need more than 512MB before you'd want to upgrade anyway.