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how importand is ram when recording and mixing anyway...

1 have 128 RAM right now... would it help me much if i upgrade to 256?
 
would it help me much if i upgrade to 256
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Yes. You don't ever want to be hitting VM while working on a project, and seeing as how Windows typically takes up close to 100MB (depending on what you have running/installed), that doesn't leave with much left if you only have 128MB.
 
I had 128mb ram for the longest....i threw in an extra 256mb stick because it was so cheap, but ive seen little or no difference in performance....
 
You will see a performance boost if you're on Win2k or XP, immediately.

You will most likely not see any gains if you're on Windows 95/98/ME...at least not if you're just doing audio multitracking.

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ok so wheather im going to upgrade then depends on the answer to this question..

what windows should i choose to install on the new harddrive then? what is most stabile and fast?
 
for xp pro - and te new comp i'm getting,
would you say 256mb ram or 526mb?
 
I would say go with 512 shack. RAM is still pretty cheap and memory management is a little better in the newer OS's.
 
Question: Would it be worth paying another $300 to go from 512MB RDRAM up to 1GB RDRAM? I wouldn't want to spend the money if it turns out WinXp and my audio software doesn't make use of the extra RAM. So, can someone please shed some light on the advantage of 1GB Ram over 512MB


many thanks ...
 
So, can someone please shed some light on the advantage of 1GB Ram over 512MB
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Unless you're doing video, 3D, or CAD you probably will not exceed using 512MB of RAM doing audio work. That said, if you had a gig of RAM, you could set up a pretty large RAM drive and use that for projects.
 
I agree, 512 meg RAM is good, anything over that would be a waste, except for useing a RAM drive as mentioned.

I always go by the following rule of thumb:

OS Min RAM Prefered RAM

Win95 32 64
Win 98/ME 64 128
Win2000/XP 128 256
 
A RAM drive is a partition set up in RAM, which acts like a regular drive. If you have a gig of RAM, and you set up a 600MB RAM drive, then you essentially have 400MB of RAM available to the system. The upside to a RAM drive is obviously speed - file transfers go at the speed of your memory bus - in most modern cases, that would be measured in gigabytes per second. The downside to a RAM drive is that it is volatile, meaning when you shut your computer off, everything that was on that drive is gone. There are some RAM drive apps that do auto backup/restore though.
 
Thanks, that makes sense. Plus, seems like I can actually save myself a couple of hundred bucks :) <- happy me
 
well, it would have been two Corsair 512MB RDRAM sticks ... quite pricey, I tell ya.
 
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