Re: Are Realtime HD Previews Possible With An NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600?

you may start to see diminishing returns as you max out the ram per core. you may see that earlier too if you are not working in a resolution that will push your system (sd won't tax your ram like hd or 2k projects would).

i only know of one guy with 32gb of ram in a macpro. i got the feeling he wasn't as impressed as he had hoped with cs3's multiprocessing and 32gb of ram. he has mentioned that nucleo pro did make things work better, and recommends it over cs3's mp renderer. there are many advantages to nucleo pro, like background ram previewing and rendering. i've also heard that it seems to handle ram better, like it is somehow more organized or optimizes use somehow.

it's true that the pipe feeding the ram is only so big, and only so much data can flow thru it, but if your pool of ram is bigger, that greater capacity is used to better feed the processors with a steadier stream of data.

Kevin Camp
Designer - KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW