smiles 0 #1 April 28, 2005 If you import a 10GB video file from your digital video camera and you have 12GB of RAM in your PC, will you able to work with that entire 10GB video file loaded into memory??? No writing back and forth to the disk??? ---massive speed enhancements possible for anyone performing processor and memory intensive functions like audio and video editing. 32-bit systems are butting up against a limit to how much memory your system can make use of. More RAM?,....can't make use of more than 4GB. On a per processor basis, you really can't make use of more than 2GB of RAM in a 32-bit system. Even if you have 2 processors to make full use of the 4GB limitation, the RAM is shared by the operating system and any applications currently running, reducing your available memory to something less than 4GB. While that seems like a ton of RAM compared to the 512MB of RAM most of us are comfortably using to run Windows, it doesn't begin to touch the potential. Windows XP 64-bit supports a maximum of 128GB of RAM with further extensions into the virtual memory space. Audio editing ---the x64 version of Sonar 4 is the same elegant multi-track digital audio workstation available to 32-bit users. What makes the x64 version different is the optimization for use with 64-bit processors and massive increases in memory, a speed improvement of at least 30%. Will 64-bit processing become the norm as people phase out their existing PC setup for something new over the next 3-5 years??? Power users who need faster audio and video processing will start to get the benefits of 64-bit operating systems, while the rest of us will start seeing the enhancements slowly trickle down to the consumer level..... SMileseustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 0 #2 April 28, 2005 Not sure what you're asking. First, I don't know anybody with 10GB RAM and second, why would the file be in memory? You dump it on a HD, then work with it. The rendering and stuff will go faster with a fair amount of RAM (not too much it will slow things down a bit again!) and a decent video card may help as well. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CTSkydiver 0 #3 April 28, 2005 I thought video cards only were helpful for live previews. All rendering is done in the processor; the videocard only creates what you see on the screen in real time. [?] Go buy 10GB of ram, and tell us what it costs... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
