2gb to 4gb?

Cyber-Mav · 18 Jun 2006 at 20:35

ahh but all im running is nero to burn a dvd. you should see the consumption rise up when windows media player 10 is up and i got some word documents loaded and firefox open. ram consumption starts rising fast and when 3dstudio is launched along with adobe photoshop then you learn the real value of having lots of ram.

im using x64 by the way.

Cyber-Mav · 18 Jun 2006 at 21:26

well its the best 85 quid i spent so far this year. i only went for the 4 gigs cuz i got it cheapo on special offer.

memory has its advantages and you can never have enough ram.

ob1 thats some good ideas there about the browser cache. i heard its best not to disable the swapfile since it can cause problems but not too sure on that. would be very good though if the system used no page file at all.

Cyber-Mav · 18 Jun 2006 at 23:03

rendering is not usually ram limited but cpu speed or gpu speed limited. then again certain images with enough lightsources can take up loads of ram.

Cyber-Mav · 19 Jun 2006 at 00:08

yea let me enjoy the 4 giggery of pleasure. hehhe i get a good nights sleep knowing i got 4gigs of ram in me box. heeeehehheeh

Cyber-Mav · 19 Jun 2006 at 00:44

swap file has always had me baffled. looks like if you get more ram you end up increasing swapfile size. :confused:

Cyber-Mav · 19 Jun 2006 at 20:29

ram is good. always wanted a system with lots of ram. and now i got one. thing is now i want more cpu cores. i want 4 cores or more.

Cyber-Mav · 20 Jun 2006 at 21:30

right done some image rendering today and all me 4 gigs was being cained. need more ram now as 4gigs has helped speed things up loads.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Jun 2006 at 15:10

yea, iv been eyeing up the fx 60. waiting to get it when its around 200 quid.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Jun 2006 at 18:05

hmm, whats the best clocking dual core s939 cpu at the moment going for 200 quid??

Cyber-Mav · 24 Jun 2006 at 17:13

is there a way to setup a ram buffer in windows media player so that even files being read from hard drive are buffered into ram, or a certain amount of ram used as a buffer? could be helpful in streaming video and doing other hard drive related tasks.

Cyber-Mav · 24 Jun 2006 at 17:42

where is windows disk cache edited? also is that the actual ram cache windows uses or pagefile?

Cyber-Mav · 26 Jun 2006 at 21:26

well, it will give twice as much traction.

Cyber-Mav · 28 Jun 2006 at 10:42

you need to edit the registry to get nero to use a larger buffer size. you won;t find this information anywhere else so pay close attention. took me ages to work this out. as you can tell i spend most of my life inside the windows registry

to manually increase the size of the ultrabuffer. edit the value in registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Recorder\WriteBufferSize value

do not increase size of buffer beyond 699886000 (667mb) or nero gives out of memory messages regardless of how much ram you have in your system.

good stuff ehh?? as shown above in the screenshot i have a use for 4 gigs of ram and for the price i paid for it its an amazing deal.

Cyber-Mav · 28 Jun 2006 at 12:50

yea i would go for 8 gig too or 16 gig if it was cheapo and my board took it.

Cyber-Mav · 29 Jun 2006 at 16:16

well 4gigs gave me a benefit. heheh i love it. 2 gins in my lappy is not too bad. more ram in a laptop is crucial since lappy hard drives are generally slow so want to avoid as much pageing as possible

Cyber-Mav · 30 Jun 2006 at 10:48

whoa howcome vista uses so much ram up? just its fancy 3d view? also does this mean the faster your gfx card the better vista runs? if thats the case then pointless having 2d and 3d clock speeds since the card will always have to be doing 3d? or is that classed as low power 3d?

hmm vista is very iffy. any screenshots of its 3d view?

Cyber-Mav · 30 Jun 2006 at 13:33

bet they still haven;t got rid of the page file even for machines equipped with 64gigs of ram.

Cyber-Mav · 30 Jun 2006 at 22:50

optional and useless on high ram pcs.

Cyber-Mav · 3 Jul 2006 at 14:36

yep come and join the 4gig club :cool:

Cyber-Mav · 5 Jul 2006 at 21:35

odd why people keep saying that this 4 gigs of ram has not been of benefit to me . i posted screenshots of my ram usage and my system is a lot better than before running my rendering apps.

also my max overclock has not been affected. with 2 gigs of ram all i could manage was 2.9ghz ram running at 194mhz 2.5-3-2-10 2T. with 4 gigs of ram the overclock is the same as so are the timings.

so its a win win situation for me .