Above 512MB of RAM

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Nightrain

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I believe I have read somewhere that anything above 512MB of RAMM can be detrimental to audio recording. Is this true because I currently have 768MB...recording on Sonar 2.2XL? If so, please explain...and what would be the fix? Could I set the virtual memory to 512MB?
 
If your using a 9x version of windows I dont see a problem...in fact the more the better.
 
Stealthtech said:
If your using a 9x version of windows I dont see a problem...in fact the more the better.
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Going beyond 768Mb in any 9x OS is a waste. They cannot address RAM as efficiently as NT based OS's like 2000 and XP.
 
I have Windows XP Ed...or to anyone esle who replied to this thread. Is this any sort of problem with a 80 gig hard drive?
 
NT variants of Windows (such as XP) can generally use large amounts of memory well. Earlier versions of windows like 98 have poorer utilitization for memory above 512 MB. There are some Microsoft artilces on this subject about limitations of Windows 9x for memory greater than 512.

Going higher than 512 in an XP system will generally help. However processor speed, hard drive performance, and other issues also enter into the equation. Most systems have a level of memory that going beyond offers little improvement.

Starting with 512 is a good place to begin. Then see how things work and try to determine where slow points are located. Sometimes they are hard disk related, and memory will not always help here.

Ed
 
80gb HD

Nighttrain...
If you are loading XP and using the NTFS or FAT32 File system you shouldn't have any problems with an 80gb hard drive..the limit for NTFS is nuts (16 exabytes?).
You may have a problem if for some reason you are using a 98 boot disk and trying to fdisk it. The 98 fdisk has a problem seeing drives above 36 (or is it 32?)gb.
If you boot from the XP cd and do a fresh install it will let you set up the partitions (or no partitions) and format the entire 80gb using either file system if you wish..although i would use ntfs...hope this all makes sense i know i'm rambling...
dlv
 
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