Would 512 to 1gig of ram speed up transcoding?

[jra111]

I currently have 512megs and an AMD 1.8 proccessor . I was just wondering if I added another 512megs to make a gig would it speed up the proccess of transcoding?

[Gonadan]

Of course, but I doubt if it will speed up enough to make it worth it.
My computer is a lot slower I had 128 RAM now I have 196 RAM but conversing isn't really much faster now.

[johnny quest]

I don't know if upping your ram would help or not. I would suggest opening your resource manager by hitting alt+ctrl+delete while you are encoding. Look at your physical memory and see if you are using it all. Also look at your system usage and see if it is at 100%. If it's at 100% my guess is that your processor is the bottleneck and not your ram, if so, adding another 512 won't make a difference.

I have a 1.6 Athlon xp200 and 512 ram, I find that it is my processor and not my ram that is the limitation. Hope this helps.

[ptmurphy]

JQ is correct. Upgrading your ram will probably give you no perceivable performance increase during the decoding process.

I have a 1.5Ghz processor and the memory is not the bottleneck. The processor pegs at 100% and the memory usage is less than half. I have 256 MB.

[SLK001]

No... your memory is waiting for the processor most of the time. Watch your memory performance under TASK MANAGER and you see that it is hardly used (it is definitly NOT over-taxed).

[TheInformer]

What OS are you using?

Win9x gets flaky once you have more than 512MB of RAM installed. Win2K/XP doesn't have this problem.

A faster CPU would probably make more of a difference than more RAM at this point for you. See what CPUs your mobo will support and upgrade if possible. Currently, the AthlonXP 2100+ CPU is the sweet spot, price/performance wise.

[jra111]

Thanks guys ,I will check to see what my memory usage is at when it is transcoding . I didnt even think of that!!!

[jra111]

Wow you guys were right on. I started transcoding an avi to an Mpeg2 hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and checked the performance and the processor was between 97-100% with only 275megs of memory used out of 512. I have a 1.8 gig AMD processor and its not slow but was hoping to make it the fastest possible.

I thank you guys for saving an un-needed purchase !!!

[Gazorgan]

I upgraded from 256 MB of SDRAM to 512 MB of DDR 266 and it mode no difference. The bottle neck in most cases is CPU cycles. Now if you only had 64 MB or even 128 MB of RAM, then there would be an issue.