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Double Ram - Noticeable difference?

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d-m-a-x

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I was hoping for a new tower, but i'll give apple the benefit of the doubt before the big break-up (may need some marriage counseling though).

I just ordered 8 gigs of ddr2 667mhz - that will bring me to a total of 14 gigs.
I am hopin my Camera Raw files will rez up faster when tethered into Capture One. After that i may get an ssd drive, although i don't want to put too much money into a relic of 2006.

Think it will help?
 
d-m-a-x said:
I just ordered 8 gigs of ddr2 667mhz - that will bring me to a total of 14 gigs.

Think it will help?
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To determine if you can benefit from more RAM, launch Activity Monitor and click the System Memory tab at the bottom to check your page outs. Page outs are cumulative since your last restart, so the best way to check is to restart your computer and track page outs under your normal workload (the apps, browser pages and documents you normally would have open). If your page outs are significant (say 1GB or more) under normal use, you may benefit from more RAM. If your page outs are zero or very low during normal use, you probably won't see any performance improvement from adding RAM.

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
 
d-m-a-x said:
I'll do a test with the activity monitor

derbothaus-
so both the ram and the ssd, or just the ssd?
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GGj has you covered. Read in Activity Monitor. Easiest way to tell. For some reason GGJ answer didn't initially show.
 
d-m-a-x said:
I'll do a test with the activity monitor

derbothaus-
so both the ram and the ssd, or just the ssd?
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If you're not swapping to disk, the added RAM is a waste. The SSD will definitely help with startup, launching apps, any drive reading or writing.
 
GGJstudios said:
If you're not swapping to disk, the added RAM is a waste. The SSD will definitely help with startup, launching apps, any drive reading or writing.
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yeah, i see it - the ssd will help with capture because it is both a read and write situation.

Ram may help with spinning wheel of death
 
Still pretty slow - Capture One does not use too much ram. The ssd helps some. In the activity monitor it seems like the cpu is what's working hard.
 
These RAM threads are really getting tiresome.

The following words should be written in letters of fire in the gray matter of every Mac or PC owner: MORE RAM IS ALWAYS BETTER, PERIOD!

There should be a sticky at the top of every Mac forum that basically says: for the love of all that's holy, never, ever ask if you should buy more RAM, just do it.

Thank you
 
phpmaven said:
These RAM threads are really getting tiresome.

The following words should be written in letters of fire in the gray matter of every Mac or PC owner: MORE RAM IS ALWAYS BETTER, PERIOD!

There should be a sticky at the top of every Mac forum that basically says: for the love of all that's holy, never, ever ask if you should buy more RAM, just do it.

Thank you
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More RAM is always better is only really true until ~8 GB, and even then you have to assume you're using modern software. After about 8 GB normal users (i.e. mostly web browsing and light MS Word or what not) will get ZERO benefit from more RAM. Zero /= better.

For this particular user, who's opening RAW files and using Capture One, will almost certainly see a benefit going above his current 6 GB. I don't think he'd have much to gain going above what he'll now have at 14 GB, however.
 
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