Desktop question

[beavereater]

If you haven't seen the link: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=229013

Seen some pretty sweet stuff...just wondering, do my resources get sucked up if I use something like STARDOCK to change the entire outlook of my desktop, or are there other ways!?

[DVD_Ripper]

For my work machine, which is pretty rhobust and not taxed heavily, I'll often trade out desktop images, etc. But for home, which is only a P4-2G I tend to have not to have a background what so ever as it tends to use quite a bit of resources.

with only 512M of memory, and a lot of MPEG encoding, I need every drop 'o ram I can afford.

[thayne]

For my work machine, which is pretty rhobust and not taxed heavily, I'll often trade out desktop images, etc. But for home, which is only a P4-2G I tend to have not to have a background what so ever as it tends to use quite a bit of resources.

with only 512M of memory, and a lot of MPEG encoding, I need every drop 'o ram I can afford.

Encoding doesn't use hardly any ram at all. CPU is what you need...

[DVD_Ripper]

For my work machine, which is pretty rhobust and not taxed heavily, I'll often trade out desktop images, etc. But for home, which is only a P4-2G I tend to have not to have a background what so ever as it tends to use quite a bit of resources.

with only 512M of memory, and a lot of MPEG encoding, I need every drop 'o ram I can afford.

Encoding doesn't use hardly any ram at all. CPU is what you need...

OK, maybe I should have said "and that I run a lot of memory intensive applications"..... oh, btw the multiple apps I normally have running for my encoding needs does chew up a lot of my available memory..... about 80% of it. 8)