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The effect of larger amounts of ram?

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RockGuitarDude

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I want to totally eliminate all virtual memory as it really slows down when I am mixing and mastering. Has anyone had any experience between 1 and 1.5 gigs? Will that help me a lot? Right now I have 512 and I want at least 1 gig but if i want more i need to get a better motherboard. I want a new one anyways tho so thats not too much of a big deal. Is there noticable difference between say 1-1.5-2gigs of memory?
 
You can't eliminate all virtual memory. And, depending on how the program you use works, more RAM might not improve performance noticeably.
 
I've heard that running with no virtual memory doesn't enhance performance. It may actually hinder performance. Some programs rely on virtual memory, and they might not work at all without it.

Search Google for "disable virtual memory" and "disable pagefile" and read what others say...
 
Photoshop won't run.. PERIOD without virtual memory.
Once I was cropping an image to 4096x1536, and it used up 15GB of page swap, and it told me scratch disks were full.
I close photoshop, and 15GB is freed up again.
 
forgetting the whole page file thing, will having 1.5 gig of ram benefit me in any way? I do a lot of mixing and mastering of recordings.
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Photoshop won't run.. PERIOD without virtual memory.
Once I was cropping an image to 4096x1536, and it used up 15GB of page swap, and it told me scratch disks were full.
I close photoshop, and 15GB is freed up again.
Click to expand...

I call shens. I've scanned a 20000x14000 (approx) image before and the TIFF produced was only 22 GB...
 
going from 512-1gb is a very noticeable performance increase for a lot of people using their systems for various things, I'd try that first & see what you think. I have my doubts about more than 1gb doing much good.
 
512 isn't enough. easily get past that running firefox with bevy of tabs open, maybe outlook/word, image editing... leave pc on for a couple days.. ugh bad. close everything when u want to play a game? absurd. hehe..1gb+ is great for avoiding hd thrashing... u really gotta try hard to run out. and thats how it should be
 
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