2gb per thread is the minimum people should use for planning. Also, if you want to run BURP (which uses an MT app), be advised that their largest tasks need up to 12gb. So I would set my RAM to be 12gb or 2gb/thread, whichever is larger.
2gb per thread is the minimum people should use for planning. Also, if you want to run BURP (which uses an MT app), be advised that their largest tasks need up to 12gb. So I would set my RAM to be 12gb or 2gb/thread, whichever is larger.
??????? Yes it has modular connectors. For everything sans the main 24 pin power. No need to have that unplug.Originally Posted by John P. Myers
Ok, OK, I stand corrected.
Just for the record, though - I put 8GB DDR3 1600 in the DrPop rig, upgraded from 4GB last month, and it didn't make a lick of difference in how much RAM was "used" for anything. Still around 2.5GB or so...this is running Win7 64bit Ultimate, AMD X6 100T, 5870HD...crunching 24/7 all out...I don't even game on it anymore, LOL.
It just sits there headless, crunching, and the extra RAM I shelled out for "just in case", well, it would appear that it didn't do squat.
Huh? More RAM doesn't make it go faster. Each project's apps need a different amount of RAM. Most projects use 250kb per task or less. But some use 1-2 gb per task. For example, TLP can use up to 1.2gb per task, RNA can use up to 2.5gb per task, and like I said, BURP can use up to 12gb per task (running only ine MT task at a time). It all depends on which projects you crunch. So yeah, if you want to limit yourself to less than all the projects, install less RAM. And yeah, all that RAM will usually be sitting idle for most projects. But RAM is dirt cheap, and I like being able to crunch ANY project.Just for the record, though - I put 8GB DDR3 1600 in the DrPop rig, upgraded from 4GB last month, and it didn't make a lick of difference in how much RAM was "used" for anything. Still around 2.5GB or so...this is running Win7 64bit Ultimate, AMD X6 100T, 5870HD...crunching 24/7 all out...I don't even game on it anymore, LOL.
It just sits there headless, crunching, and the extra RAM I shelled out for "just in case", well, it would appear that it didn't do squat.
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Right, I agree that going from 4 to 8GB won't make it crunch faster. What I thought I would see is higher usage of the RAM by the system, and little (hopefully almost none) usage of the swap file on HDD. However, it would seem the projects that I run don't take advantage of the extra memory.
Again, I agree that RAM is cheap now, but I was just trying to point out that in my limited experiment, there was no noticeable gain when going from 4 to 8GB. Now, in the future, it might serve me well, so I'm happy to have it "just because"...
Yep it won't stop using the swap file just because there's more memory. That would make sense, so it'll never happen. What i had to do is actually disable windows from using a swap file.Right, I agree that going from 4 to 8GB won't make it crunch faster. What I thought I would see is higher usage of the RAM by the system, and little (hopefully almost none) usage of the swap file on HDD. However, it would seem the projects that I run don't take advantage of the extra memory.
Again, I agree that RAM is cheap now, but I was just trying to point out that in my limited experiment, there was no noticeable gain when going from 4 to 8GB. Now, in the future, it might serve me well, so I'm happy to have it "just because"...
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Right, I agree that going from 4 to 8GB won't make it crunch faster. What I thought I would see is higher usage of the RAM by the system, and little (hopefully almost none) usage of the swap file on HDD. However, it would seem the projects that I run don't take advantage of the extra memory.
Again, I agree that RAM is cheap now, but I was just trying to point out that in my limited experiment, there was no noticeable gain when going from 4 to 8GB. Now, in the future, it might serve me well, so I'm happy to have it "just because"...I have read reports that with certain apps Win7 will not behave well without the swap file. But with 12GB of RAM there is no need to disable the swap file, rather you could just create a RAM drive and tell Windows to put the swap file there. Best of both worlds.
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