How much memory

twincitybulldog

Senior Member Location: Winter Haven, Florida "Home of Legoland" Joined: Aug 03, 2009 14:59 Messages: 159 Offline

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Feb 04, 2011 07:37

I now have 8gb memory. Is this enough to work with HD video files or will I be wasting my money to add another 8GB. I am running Windows 7 64 bit OS.
Would I be better off updating my Video card. I now am using a Radeon 5450 1gb.
Or would I need to upgrade both memory and video card?
PD9 crashes sometimes when I am using several HD files at once,

Motherboard: M4A89GTDPro Asus
CPU: AMD Phenom 11 Black Edition 3.2ghz 4 core
Memory: 8gb
Graphics: HD5450 Radeon Windows 8 Pro 64bit
Cameras. Panasonic AG-HMC40, GoPro Hero 3 Black
Edition.

RobertJ/OZ

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline

Feb 04, 2011 19:42

I have 8gb of memory and have no issue with multiple HD files, I read somewhere, just can't remember where, that you need Win 7 Pro or Ultimate to make max. use of available memory, I don't think that increasing your memory will achieve much, unless like me your brain needs a kick start.

Robert Intel i7 930, 16GB ram, Radeon HD 5770 1Gb,Ver. 14.12 Win7 64 bit
Intel i7 7700 HQ, 16 GB ram Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB dual drives 1 TB SSD + 1 TB HDD Win 10

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jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

Feb 04, 2011 20:25

You need a 64-bit version of Windows to use more than 4GB (somwhat less, actually) of memory. Anything more is wasted. Jerry Schwartz

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Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Feb 04, 2011 20:43

If one looks at the memory utilization meter on Windows when executing multiple HD files I rarely see more than 4 Gb being used, and that includes ALL programs running at the time.

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Win 10, i7

Dave

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2008 00:55 Messages: 18 Offline

Feb 05, 2011 13:30

Same here. I cannot use more than 30% of my 12 GB of memory regardless of how many subtracks, multiple 2GB clips, special effects, etc. I am able to watch HD video, burn a DVD, surf the internet, and produce super large HD videos. Win 7 Pro 64 bit and PD( Ultra 64.