Re: what do I upgrade? (512MB to 1024MB ram makes no diffs)

"Johan Wagener" <pil(nospam)@webmail.co.za> wrote in message
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> I am making a lot of dvd movies from my camcorder. The encoding process
> (from DV avi to Mpeg) takes a very long time. I would like to know what in
> my PC I must upgrade so that this takes less time.
>
> I have a Pentuim 4 - 2GHz (running at 2.4GHz) with 1024MB DDR 333. My
> motherboard however only runs the memory at 266MHz. The increase from 512
to
> 1024MB ram did not seem to make any difference in the encoding speed.
>
> I also have a 7200RPM Maxtor 160GB HD and I don't have any video editing
> card.

Obviously increasing the ram from 512 won't help your encoding speed...
that's just processing power...

Poochie