Have and older pc, 1.6 Ghz with 768 mb ram. Should I get more. Will get a faster, but than I can still use my old ram on that. What do you say guys?
Get more ram or not
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- KVRian
- 598 posts since 3 Dec, 2005 from Sweden
HI
Have and older pc, 1.6 Ghz with 768 mb ram. Should I get more. Will get a faster, but than I can still use my old ram on that. What do you say guys?
Have and older pc, 1.6 Ghz with 768 mb ram. Should I get more. Will get a faster, but than I can still use my old ram on that. What do you say guys?
- KVRAF
- 9600 posts since 17 Sep, 2002 from Gothenburg Sweden
It depends. If you use more than 768 mB the OS has to use the HD as temporary storage which basically sucks. But then again chances are you're not going over 768 and you won't notice one bit of difference.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 598 posts since 3 Dec, 2005 from Sweden
Well I am trying the nebula 2 plug. It is great, but sometimes i get the crack noise. Though I geusse I need more cpu for that to go away.
- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
or increase your buffer size
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 598 posts since 3 Dec, 2005 from Sweden
I will try that Hink. Thanks both of you.
- KVRAF
- 9600 posts since 17 Sep, 2002 from Gothenburg Sweden
I just wanted to add that if you have 512 mB you most likely will notice an improvement and if you have 1 gig you most likely will not. That is a very sweeping statement based purely on my own experience and will depend heavily on other factors. But if there's anything like a base case,there is probably where it's at. So 768 is in the middle. And your CPU isn't exactly state of the art. So more likely than not,your RAM amount isn't the bottle neck here. Possible but not likely.
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- KVRian
- 1399 posts since 29 Feb, 2004
----Ya know, I think there's a lot of factors involved. On my older P3 500 machine, after 192megs, it didn't seem to matter. And now, with a P4 2400, I doubled it to 1gig, and I see/experience no real difference from 512megs. So yeah, I dunno, this post was both pseudo informative, and kinda useless at the same time.
Jeff
Jeff
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 598 posts since 3 Dec, 2005 from Sweden
Just want to add that as I went from 256 samples to 384 samples, I only exxeded my latency from 6 ms to 9 ms. And I think I can live with that.