How much RAM is enough?

[peter99]

I'm mainly mixing big sessions with lots of plugins and some VI's - how much RAM do you recommend to buy? I have a dual quad 2.8 mac pro with PT 8.0.3 on OS 10.6.2

at the moment I have 2 1MB chips and 2 2 MB chips total 6MB ram

just wondering what you use

[chrisdee]

It depends on what plugins and vi's you are running. If you for example take Trilian, some of the samples/instruments are 3GB. Personally, I'v got 6GB running W7 64bit ultimate and PT 8.0.3cs2. I'm not able to run Trilian smoothly on my I7 setup. Neither am I able to run Strike smoothly. But the other plugins and VI that comes with PT8 runs fine with 6GB ram.

[tamasdragon]

Yes, with vi's the more the better.

[docscholl]

Neither am I able to run Strike smoothly

Been thinking about buying this.
Is it a RAM hog?

[emorganproductions]

I use strike all the time, sometimes multiple instances, with a 4GB ram 2007 macbook pro. 6 GB should be more then enough

[huzzam]

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

--Bill Gates, 1981

(ok it's apocryphal)