How Much RAM!?

[s0nguy]

All,

I run HD3 (8.03) on a Dell Precision 690 (Win7Ultimate - 64 bit, 4gb Ram, lots of hard drives).

Anyway... I am doing a lot more stuff with BFD XFL and other piano samples, samplers, etc... I am maxing out the ram in the system. Would I benefit by going to 10+GB of Ram?

I know that PT is still 32bit but can programs inside of it (like BFD) take advantage of extra RAM?

Also, it seems like there is a bad memory leak in PT... when I close one session and open another one my memory usage stay at like 90%... anyone else seen this?


thanks

s0nguy

[Raoul23]

Pro tools can't use more than 4gb of ram but if you use reaper/VE pro with BFD inside that and rewire it through PT you will be able to take advantage of more ram

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Raoul23

Pro tools can't use more than 4gb of ram but if you use reaper/VE pro with BFD inside that and rewire it through PT you will be able to take advantage of more ram

While this is technically accurate, I would still double the RAM. While it won't ALL get used, it does allow PT to take all it will, without wrestling the OS for it. Then, if you update to 10, you can use the RAM caching feature as you will have enough to play with(really enjoying this feature on my rig with 12GB of RAM in it)

[filosofem]

Originally Posted by s0nguy

Would I benefit by going to 10+GB of Ram?

Hell yeah, 24GB on my rig. Windows if allowed can take 2.5GB alone. Pro Tools 4GB. Pro Tools 10 Disk Cache 12GB. VEP gets the rest. X79 Chipsets are currently limited to 32GB.