ram increase = increase speed?

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pathfinder

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Hey guys, Planning to upgrade my old pentium 4 system to an i7 quad-core.

Questions:

Is it worth it to go all the way with the i7 extreme or is the i7 940 with 2.93 gigahertz good enough to run Edius 5?

Is 6 gigs of ram more than sufficient? If I increase it to 12 gigs, will it make any significant difference?

Thanks in advance. :thumbup:
 
6 gigs is usually fine. The question is where the bottleneck happens. The answer in newer systems seems to be hard drives, since our other technology has advanced pretty far. For this kind of work a striped RAID system might be a better investment than doubling the ram or even getting the slightly faster processor.

However, most computers are fast enough to run Edius. What really matters is the video you're working on, effects layers and level of the codecs.
 
As i understand Edius is not ram driven like many other editing system , it uses CPU. I am testing Edius 5 on a very slow pc , 3gig cpu , 1 gig ram and a agp 256mb cheapo card , it still runs fine , only when it comes to more than 2 video layers SD she needs renders. I am not sure on HDV using HQ avi hope this help. I am waiting to upgrade to the i 7 or newer i5 coming , so for the meantime i will be getting a inbetween system . The Asus P3q5 delux ddr3 and biuling a quad core system around that board , the prices are very good and what i have read on Canopus forum a lot of owner are very happy with this board and it still performs very favorable against the core i7 boards. hope this helps
 
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