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8 core?
texasboy:
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--- Quote from: TheNightWatchman on April 29, 2007, 11:33:52 pm ---mmm playing around in After Effects (post production tool... CGI and green screen, that type of thing) at Uni... the core2duo 2.4ghz with 2GB of RAM struggles. Although these are only first year editing suites, the advanced ones should cope (no idea what they'll have)
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CGI always needs better specs. 2GBs of RAM was normal for that kind of thing 2 - 3 years ago (on a home PC), now if you put a home PC together to do that kind of thing you'd seriously consider 8GBs of RAM and a Core 2 Quad 2.93+ GHz.
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My Nividea SLI mobo will handle 8GB`s but I dont really need that much at present. Maybe when I retire and become a couch gamer.lol
cheers
TheNightWatchman:
Win XP doesn't support 8GB of RAM anyway. You'd need Vista or Linux or something
Quantum:
--- Quote from: TheNightWatchman on April 30, 2007, 09:25:40 pm ---Win XP doesn't support 8GB of RAM anyway. You'd need Vista or Linux or something
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Well XP doesn't obviously (it's a 32 bit OS). But doesn't XP x64?
TheNightWatchman:
...I have no idea what the relation is between the bit of the OS and the amount of RAM it can handle.
Besides standard Vista is a 32 bit OS isn't it?
Quantum:
--- Quote from: TheNightWatchman on May 01, 2007, 09:01:52 pm ---...I have no idea what the relation is between the bit of the OS and the amount of RAM it can handle.
Besides standard Vista is a 32 bit OS isn't it?
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If it's a 32bit OS that means it can only make 2^32 address in the ram, which is the same as 4GBs.
If it's a 64bit OS you can make 2^64 address in the ram, which is the same as 17'179'869'184GBs (though in practise due to both hardware and software constraints this is a lot lower, but will increase over time).
Vista 32bit OS can not have more than 4GBs of ram, just as a 32bit CPU can not have more than 4GBs or ram, thus the push in to 64bits.
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