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ram if more better??

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by andmerr, Mar 27, 2005.

  1. andmerr

    andmerr Guest

    Just considering buying a new motherboard and was wondering what kind of improvements will more ram make TO encoding and rendering.The board i was looking at has the capability of holding at least 4gig.

    Comments appreciated
     
  2. redhatman

    redhatman Regular member

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    Hey, wow! a motherboard that can support 4 gigs!! Ok, ... ram will speed up your encoding and stuff a bit, .. but buying a fast processor will do more to speed up your computer. By the way, do you know any cheap online computer stores besides newegg? I am looking for a 128mb video card. Thanks
    -Pat (redhatman)
     
  3. Liez4Love

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    First to andmerr- incase you still odnt quite understand.. RAM is the memory used for opening stuff and so on.. So often time if you may have noticed if you open a bunch of prgrams, it lags alot, thats because there isnt a enough memory (RAM) to open it all at once.. so the more the better..

    Second to redhatman- www.zipzoomfly.com and www.xpcgear.com are some of my favorites, with good prices.
     
  4. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    how much ram are you running now??
     
  5. andmerr

    andmerr Guest

    Current board :

    K7 trition series
    supports AMD Athlon XPprocessor
    chip set: AMD 2600+
    RAM: 1024 DDR

    Looking to upgrade to a new 64bit board, with the hyper threading functions ,with 4 slots of ram.Each slot able to handle 1 gig.(probably with a 3800 chip set)

    Unsure what to buy.
    Any suggestions appreciated :

    nb: would have to support AGP as my existing graphics card is a nvidia 6600
     
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