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Re: G5 memory for AE - Max it out? ECC vs non-ECC?
by Kevin Camp on Oct 2, 2009 at 6:43:15 pm

i don't think either of the 2.3ghz g5s were quad-core (two dual core cpus)... so if you only have 2 cores, the most ram ae will be able to use is just under 8gb with 'render multiple frames simultaneously' enabled in the multiprocessing preference. with that option ae can launch a render engine for each available core, with each core getting a max of about 3.5gb of ram, 2 cores x 3.5gb = 7gb.

having nearly 4gb per core will make ae run more smoothly particularly for hd projects. it should eliminate the need for disk caching, and that can speed up rendering.

other parts of the mac osx and any software that is 64-bit will be able to use the full 16gb of ram, so it may not be a bad idea to max it out depending on what else you do with your system, but ae will only use about half of it.

Kevin Camp
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G5 memory for AE - Max it out? ECC vs non-ECC? by John Dean on Oct 2, 2009 at 5:57:58 pm
- Re: G5 memory for AE - Max it out? ECC vs non-ECC? by Kevin Camp on Oct 2, 2009 at 6:43:15 pm
  - Re: G5 memory for AE - Max it out? ECC vs non-ECC? by John Dean on Oct 3, 2009 at 3:28:22 pm
    - Re: G5 memory for AE - Max it out? ECC vs non-ECC? by Kevin Camp on Oct 5, 2009 at 3:14:56 pm

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