without some hacks windows 32 bit cant use more than 2gb of ram for
ALL running applications
windows 64bit can use far more although any non 64 bit compiled
applications are limited to around 2gb of ram per application
make sure you don't have the Microsoft disk indexer running... it
murders the harddisk performance.. itsa not enough to righ click on your
drive icons and say dont index me... the program will still run you need
to go to services and disable it
there is not a lot of software that internally is multi threaded enough
to make sure of dual let alone quad or more core cpus. :-(
you will also need to make sure you motherboard can support any memory
upgrade - some are quite picky about having different size / single or
double sided memory in different slots.
Good luck
I run a core i7 system water cooled and over clocked to 4Ghz with 6gb of
ddr3 ram and fast hard disks and I am mostly happy with the performance
but its a system I built myself and it was a considerable expenditure.
On 26/09/2010 19:29, Chris Barker wrote:
> I would say that more RAM would be useful, Bob (but 8Gb?). How about your
> hard drive, though? Is that large enough or new enough?
>
> I'll ask younger son, my Apple Creative.
>
> Chris
>
> On 26 Sep 2010, at 19:22, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Okay, so I'm running an early Mac Pro with 2, 3gig Intel dual-core Xenon
>> processors, 4 gigs of ram, 500mb hard drive on Snow Leopard. The video card
>> is a relatively new ATY,RadeonX1900. But the 'puter seems to be feeling a
>> bit infirm, at least when futzing around with layered CS4 files. I'm
>> wondering if another 8 gigs of ram would significantly speed things up.
>> Frankly, I'm not in the mood right now to buy another computer. When I got
>> this one I couldn't imagine how I'd ever need any more than a dual-core 3
>> gig machine. Phew! Also thinking of a RAID array to maybe make it faster,
>> but if more ram won't help, I may have to go ahead and bite the bullet for
>> more firepower.
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