More RAM bether performance?

mariusmellebye · Post by **mariusmellebye** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:46 am

Hi, I have a G5 2x2,3 GHz machine with 1,5 GB RAM

I´m considering to buy another 2 GB of RAM so there will be a total of 3,5 GB RAM
Will there be a noticable gain of performance in Ableton Live and VST/AU plugins, or is it a waist of money?

Marius

D DAS · Post by **D DAS** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:55 am

you shouldn't eve need to ask that question.

OF COURSE IT WILL.

you can never have enough ram.

for audio production 3.5 gigs will be just fine, plus with the machine you are working on it will never choke

mariusmellebye · Post by **mariusmellebye** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:23 am

thanks, I was pretty sure it would gain the performance, but just wanted to know if it would be significant

thx

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:33 am

I thought that Windows XP can only use 2gig of RAM, which was why people were excited about Vista.

mariusmellebye · Post by **mariusmellebye** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:37 am

why would anyone use XP?

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:52 am

Pcs are better than Macs though, aren't they?

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:04 pm

brightonalex wrote:Pcs are better than Macs though, aren't they?

So, why doesn't live have a slicer?

Our government caused 9/11.

-or-

Macs are better than PC's.

...honestly, I find the first two flamewars more interesting.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:18 pm

I wouldn't flat out say it will be better, even on a Mac. If you're not NEEDING that much RAM ever, having it will do very little. Nice to have it in reserve of course, but if you're only using 1GB of RAM now, adding 2more GB isn't going suddenly make things feel faster. Again, not bad to have, just don't expect miracles unless you actually need to start using that new RAM.

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:20 pm

I would say that you probably won't see a noticeable performance increase unless you have very massive sets. You can check how much RAM Live uses in System Information somewhere (not a regular Mac user, so I don't know the details.

mariusmellebye · Post by **mariusmellebye** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:25 pm

I know I could need some more speed when using plugins like Reaktor, Absynth, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra and stuff like that... the CPU often goes over 70 - 80% and was hoping that more RAM would be the solution?

creepjoint · Post by **creepjoint** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:07 pm

mariusmellebye wrote:I know I could need some more speed when using plugins like Reaktor, Absynth, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra and stuff like that... the CPU often goes over 70 - 80% and was hoping that more RAM would be the solution?

logically a faster cpu would do the trick !!

More Ram if you want to use huge amounts of samples that arent disc streamed

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:23 pm

In general, adding RAM will not do anything for increasing your CPU

arctic ranger · Post by **arctic ranger** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:43 am

brightonalex wrote:Pcs are better than Macs though, aren't they?

DUCK!!!!!

freqn · Post by **freqn** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:16 pm

Mac's rule....................get one.

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:28 pm

as i know, osx 10.4.x itself uses more ram then xp, btw check the osx activity monitor