On Mar 21, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Tom <tba...@nmia.com> wrote: > Ah, 2 X 2 chips = 4 GB. Should have looked closer. Thanks Kris and Peter. So > 16 GB of RAM maxes out this G5. > > Still, that would double what I have, and if i were sure that the rendering > times for Final Cut 5 would be significantly reduces, I'd go for it. >
Likely not. Video rendering is heavily heavily CPU bound. Here's a suggestion...install Menu Meters: <http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/> And see what's going on. If the free memory dwindles to nothing, and the CPU isn't pegged, the bottleneck is RAM, and increasing it will help. I'd be willing to bet, however, that the CPU meters get pegged at max and stay there. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
