Video Rendering Spec (And Boosting)

Soldato
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I was wondering if anyone knew or had any sources on what's the greatest effect in terms of hardware on video rendering time? I'm planning to upgrade within the next 6 months, but in the meantime I've been thinking about grabbing some cheap RAM off eBay to stick in to give my render times a boost.

My current setup (now a little dated I know):

AMD 3800+ X2 (2.25Ghz)
Asus A8N-E
Corsair 2GB (2x1GB) 3500 (433)
nVidia GF7800GT
Windows XP Pro SP2

Now will adding another 2GB of RAM (same speed) actually make that much difference? It'll only cost about £30 inc. P&P off the bay, but obviously if it'll still be bottlenecked by the CPU there's not much point with a major upgrade in the semi-near future (a quadcore and 8GB of 6400 DDR2).

Cheers guys :)
 
The cpu.

check using task manager to see if your using all your ram, as if you arent, it wont make that much difference. if you are, then it will cerainly help.
 
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