So could someone please explain the concept of RAM to me? What is its purpose with the computer? What exactly would buying more ram do? Would my programs run faster?
rAMMMM RAAAMMMMM... ram is the thing that you keep the stuff in silly OR it's that goat lookin thing.
ZRB, Ever since you backed me in the weed debate I am no longer convinced of your idiocy. That's just for kicks, friend. I'm among the legion who has been very impressed with the evolution of your tone on this board. I think you deserve at least a couple years as 'most improved' poster. Since no one's given you the simplest answer, RAM's memory. Your hard drive's where stuff's stored. The memory's what's used to run it. B. Jones
I believe Ram is one of the main Hindu Gods. An earth born reincarnation of the supreme being Vishnu. If you really want to know more about it I suggest renting the 12 volume Ramayana.
Cahce, RAM and hard drive have the same function, storage of data to be processed by CPU. The difference between them lies within how fast data can be get in and out of them. Cache memory is closest to CPU and quite expensive, and it's not the more the better, so typically there's only like 512K of cache memory onboard. RAM is a hell lot faster than hard drive(electrical vs. mechanical in working principle), but costs more and unlike hard drive, cannot hold data without electricity. More RAM doesn't equal to more speed. RAM accelerates the computer when RAM is the bottleneck in the system. Typical RAM eaters are image processing and 3D games. Running Word in any windows won't be faster with 1 GB of RAM. Think of RAM as a warehouse and programs as packages, the CPU first check its cache for data of a package, if it's not there it goes to check the RAM, if it's still not there it goes to the hard drive. So, if your RAM is big enough to hold the whole package you are using, then the time CPU uses to get that package from the big and slow hard drive is saved. Whether RAM speeds up a computer depends on the size and numbers of running programs. Now you've got told!
Thanks, so are you saying that more RAM would be helpful for video editing? I've got plenty of room on the disk for video capturing, so that's not my problem. Whenever I edit video, my system slows down dramatically.
more RAM == GOOD especially for video editing. I'm working on building a video editing workstation soon, and plan to include at least a gig of RAM, and probably some 10K or 15K SCSI hard drives. Maybe dual processor, maybe no.
Definitely.... I do some video editing myself. You CAN'T have enough RAM for this, and the faster it is, the better (think DDR or RAMBUS)...
Its like a goat or somethin'...with big ass curly horns... ZRB will certainly be back to his old trolling form after the season starts.
Thanks for the help guys. I just updated my computer from 128 megs to 384 today. I managed to render a one-hour video project in 20 minutes. That would have taken about 25 hours had I still been using 128 megs, since it took me half an hour to render a three-minute project before the upgrade.
ZRB - what do you do with the finished product? Is this DV that you shot or is it something less "honorable" I do a bit of video editing(from my DV camcorder), and used to use Ulead VideoStudio, but now I just use Windows Movie Maker and save them as wmv files. I am still trying to figure out how best to to archive the finished product.
