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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

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

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

thx

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

why would anyone use XP?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

DUCK!!!!!

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

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