RAMless

[Corran]

Besides, it will probably take a long time to go outdated.

Umm.... How long do you define as a 'long time'?

[jbone]

The problem is that I have is that I have to do that all at once. So I don't want any lag I'm overloading it. Besides, it will probably take a long time to go outdated.

I guarantee you do not need to do that all at once on the same computer - and I guarantee you're better off splitting up the tasks on more than one computer. I also guarantee the new computer will be outdated much more quickly than you anticipate.

[Declan_Vee]

Makes you wonder if that money could have been put to better use. Something that will... last. Oh well.

[Zero]

Corran: Two years.

jbone: I just want to see what I can handle all at once. Besides, I like to eperiment with things. When I get my Novell server back, that will become the website server. But that's not untill June of '05.

Declan: What do I spend my money on? Computers and parts. What should I spend it on?

-Zero

[trythil]

*About to get a system together running 16 GBs of ECC RAM*

That is such obscene overkill.

You'd be better off flushing your money down the toilet. You will never, ever need 16GB of RAM in a consumer-end desktop computer running today's applications.

Maybe a few years from now, but not today.

Trust me. I have an Athlon 64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM, and unless I'm doing something extraodinarily complex, I practically edit in real-time.

Can you edit videos, run a server and do maybe three other things at once?

Yes -- in fact, I can, and do it almost every day, on substantially less than 16GB of RAM. :)

Doesn't mean it's a good idea, though.

[Zero]

*Shrugs* Oh well. I'm not about to have this idea thrown down yet.

-Zero

[Zetsuai]

wow, i know that i am running a dinosaur (at this point)

ecs k7s5a mobo
mad dog 128meg vid card
amd duron 900
512 pc 2100 (underclocked because of the duron fsb)
using adobe 6.5
o/s is XP Pro


my friend edits and runs a Syntax mobo, 512 pc2100 and amd xp clocked at 1.25 and runs awsome.
XP Pro and 6.5 as well.

neithor of us crash or glitch and run just fine.

Now sure where this is going, but it DOES NOT TAKE A POWER PUTER to make beautiful seamless DVD quality vids.

i plan on getting an xp2600 processor soon....


maybe the puter gods have blessed our pc's.
hehehe

[Zero]

Now sure where this is going, but it DOES NOT TAKE A POWER PUTER to make beautiful seamless DVD quality vids.

We weren't saying that. We're just disscussing if my massive amount of RAM for my new machine is going to be needed. (Or the machine itself nessisary)

-Zero

[jbone]

We weren't saying that. We're just disscussing if my massive amount of RAM for my new machine is going to be needed. (Or the machine itself nessisary)

...and we've overwhelmingly decided that it's not, and he should just save his money rather than waste it. (Perhaps invest in the stock market, perhaps open an IRA...)

[Zetsuai]

thanks... i think i DID make my point... 16 gigs of ram is overkill... unless you want to run a small city....
a friend of mine ran a UO server... on not much more than i have now, and a LOT of people played on it, and it was perfect.
people blow up what is REALLY needed to run smooth.
i have built sssoooo many puters... you get a batch of parts that dont like each other and you got a slow puter, no matter what the stats tell you on the individual boxes... the right combo is hard to find actually.
i had a 500 celeron on an asus mobo with 768 megs of pc100 and could write a cd at 24x, search and download on dsl, and run winamp listening to music....
actually that should be IMPOSSIBLE..... but i did, and never gliched...
who knows......
buy smart, and have fun is all i can say.
later! [/quote]