xp pro or windows 7???

[Paunch]

I really want to get more out of my system, and xp's 3gb ram limit is pretty junk so what are the limiations of windows 7 with regards to RAM? And if it does support more ram, will premiere do the same or is there a limit?

 

[SonicStates]

It's a 32 bit OS versus 64 bit issue and not the version of windows. 64 bit can take advantage of more RAM (over simplified so excuse me). I haven't even used windows 7 but I have heard it is quite stable. Of course RAM is not the only issue influencing performance CPU and motherboard choice WILL also be very important choices. I'm hoping someone a lot more knowledgeable than myself can help you with the Premiere part of your question.
Cheers,
Sam

 

[mdslammer]

I have been using XP Pro x64 for years and now have moved to Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

By using a O.S. that is 64bit, it takes advantage of the components installed.
The more RAM and CPU power in the system, the more ease of production.
Theoretically that is...rogar-BigGrin(DBG)

P.P. Requirments: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/

I have no complaints so far. Good luck on your decision. I'll post my PC specs in
case it may help.

Mark Dalzell

VisionDAW 4U 8-Core Xeon Workstation
2 Intel QUAD-Core Xeon 5365-3.0GHz, 8MB, 1333MHz Processors
16GB 667MHz Fully Buffered Server Memory Modules (2x2GB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft® Windows® Windows 7 x64
WDC 250GB, Ultra ATA100, 7200 rpm, 8MG Buffer Main OS HD
2 WWDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 16MB Buffer HD (Raid 0)
2 WDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MG Buffer HD (Samples)
2 WDC 1TB Enterprise Class, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 32MB Buffer Hard Drive
MOTU 24 I/O (main) / MOTU 2408mk3 (slave)
Plexor PX-800A 18X Dbl. Layer DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Buffalo BuRay Drive (External) BR-816SU2
Front Panel USB Acess
Integrated FireWire (1394a) interface
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W Power Supply
3xUAD1 Universal Audio Cards
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1800 / Memory 768 MB GDDR3
CUDA Parallel Processor Cores / 64
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @60Hz = 2560x1600
Memory Interface 192Bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) / 38.4 GB/sec
PCI-Express, DUAL-Link DVI 1
Digital Outputs 3 (2 out of 3 active at a time)
Dual 25.5" Samsung 2693HM LCD HD Monitors

 

[Neil Rowe]

windows 7 64 bit hands down. ALL new versions of adobes pro video software will be 64 bit ONLY. as well, cs4 and newer versions can essentially use as much ram and processors as you have in your system by spawning mutiple background processes of the program which then act as a sort of render farm to simply feed frames to your single process that you can actually see and are working on. it all just happens in the background. .. each node of ppro or AE uses 4 GB of ram so you could have 4 instances of PPRo each running 4 gb of ram and each using one of the cores on your quad core ,, all rendering to the one node of ppro you are working on.. like having a 4 machine render farm speed up everything you are doing.

..anyway. hopefully in the future they will incorporate use of all available ram to a single instance of the program which handels mutiprocessing and large addressing or ram all internally. but either way. windows 764 BIT is the easy choice.

 

[PerroneFord]

I've been running Win7 for months on my primary editing machine. No way I'd use anything else. I have XP64 on the cutting latptop, Vista on my work desktop, and XP32 on two other machines.

Win7 FTW! (Is that redundant?)