Increase to 4Gb or upgrade Ram

[Firestarter666]

Hi,

Need some help here. My PC is quick but if I can improve the performance I will. I do loads of video rendering and it is really with this that I need to speed things up. What I'd like to know is if I get another 2 x 1Gb sticks of Ram the same I have and go to 4Gb will this help me. Or would it be better to get a different make of Ram altogether. I will be honest that overclocking is not something I know much about or had a huge success with. At the moment my system is not overclocked at all. I used NVIDIA Tune to overclock once and to be honest saw no improvement and had stability issues so reverted back to standard.
I've put my system below and would welcome any suggestions.

AMD FX60 X2 processor running at 2.6
Arctic cooling 64 freezer Pro
2 X 1Gb Matched Geil Value Ram PC3200 CAS3
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB
Thermaltake 500W power unit

Software for vid editing are Pinnacle studio 10 and Cyberlink Powerdirector 5

 

[GAMEfreak]

i''m not sure , but i think you could flash that 7800GT with a quadro bios. should give some nice gain in rendering, but please wait on someone to prove me wrong before trying it because frankly i'm really not sure.

 

[Firestarter666]

thanks so much for all your help.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Need some help here. My PC is quick but if I can improve the performance I will. I do loads of video rendering and it is really with this that I need to speed things up.

AMD FX60 X2 processor running at 2.6
Arctic cooling 64 freezer Pro
2 X 1Gb Matched Geil Value Ram PC3200 CAS3
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D
XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB
Thermaltake 500W power unit

Hi Firestarter666, thats a really great system you have there, I'm suprised you are finding it slow.

I'm not sure what the main requirement of 'video rendering' is?

Isn't that where you glue together lots of smaller edits into a huge AVI or similar? If so I think that would be all down to the CPU and Hard-disks and to a certain extent fast memory (2Gb should be fine?). An FX-60 should be plenty fast for that in the processor department but I'm wondering if perhaps you need a faster disk-system for writing these huge files? (i.e Raid-0).

If a little extra CPU power is gonna help you then your FX-60 is a really easy processor to overclock . . . because you are able to change its multipliers upwards which is something most processors can't do.

You sound like you don't know much about overclocking and therefor may not know what the heck a multiplier is so I will give u some basic info (if you know this already then sorry!)

FX60 - Socket 939 Multicore CPU - 2.6GHz - 2MB Cache (1MB each Core)

2.6GHz (2600MHz) - 13 x 200MHz

13 (multiplier) x 200MHz (external clock)

If you can change your multiplier upwards to 14x you should hit 2.8GHz no problem

2.8GHz (2800MHz) - 14 x 200MHz

If you can change your multiplier upwards to 15x you should hit 3.0GHz but this may not be as easy and you will probably have to increase the voltage to your CPU (vCore) and fiddle with some other settings . . .

3.0GHz (3000MHz) - 15 x 200MHz

Let us know how much of this information you understand and give us some feedback about where the 'delays' are happenning?