@Rich Pell said:

In my case .. 'various ' meaning what ? [[;)]] Prepare me for the worst !! [:P] Rich

Chipset, BIOS, drivers, weather, whatever... [:)] As one example my MSI Neo2 Ultra (also 939) refuse to work with 4 equal 1GB TwinMos sticks. 2 TwinMos and 2 Selectra works great though, go figure.

/Mattias

Hmm. sounds like it may be one of those quirky.."I mayget it to work one day senerios" !
Thanks Alot for the "Util" Mattias ! I just got it...i may have some questions come tweeking time..Thanks alot guys.. Best, Rich

@Rich Pell said:

In my case .. 'various ' meaning what ? [[;)]] Prepare me for the worst !! [:P] Rich

Chipset, BIOS, drivers, weather, whatever... [:)] As one example my MSI Neo2 Ultra (also 939) refuse to work with 4 equal 1GB TwinMos sticks. 2 TwinMos and 2 Selectra works great though, go figure.

/Mattias

Hmm. sounds like it may be one of those quirky.."I mayget it to work one day senerios" !
Thanks Alot for the "Util" Mattias ! I just got it...i may have some questions come tweeking time..Thanks alot guys.. Best, Rich
One last thought. If you get your RAM from a dealer such a Crucial you might be able to return it within a certain period of time if it turns out not to be suitable.

DG

Thanks DG ! Well , all this may be a moot if i cant make Samplitude LAA with Mattias`s Util. I`ll let you know soon. I have a feeling it wont work since even 1 character change in Samps.exe will render the CM stick protection useless apparently..damb dongle.. [:(] Talk soon , Rich

Hi... Anyone tried this on a 3 or 3,5 GB system? Any significant difference in what can be loaded?

@Christian Marcussen said:

Hi... Anyone tried this on a 3 or 3,5 GB system? Any significant difference in what can be loaded?

I haven't tried 3.5GB, but I guess that it would be the same as 4GB. Between 3 and 4GB there is approximately a difference of 100MB when it comes to sample loading.

DG

Sweet... becuase most of my slaves have 4x512mb. If I can do with 3,5GB taking out one 512 and a single 2GB ram peice would be enough.

@Christian Marcussen said:

Sweet... becuase most of my slaves have 4x512mb. If I can do with 3,5GB taking out one 512 and a single 2GB ram peice would be enough.

If........................! My slaves work with paired memory, so that I can only get 3 or 4GB; not 3.5. They also have to fill all slots.[:(]

DG

Cant't you put whatever you want in them? In my 4 slots I can put any combination, but to take use of Dual-Channel it must be the same size ram. But the ram boost from dual channel shouldnt have any say on how many samples I can load

@Christian Marcussen said:

Cant't you put whatever you want in them? In my 4 slots I can put any combination, but to take use of Dual-Channel it must be the same size ram. But the ram boost from dual channel shouldnt have any say on how many samples I can load

No, unfortunately mine doesn't like anything but pairs of RAM.

DG

Sucky - admitedly I haven't tried. But in theory it should work. What mother board you useing - you know?

@Christian Marcussen said:

Sucky - admitedly I haven't tried. But in theory it should work. What mother board you useing - you know?

I'll email you the specs when I get a chance.

DG

How does this work on ones main daw, or regular word/gaming/office PC?

@Christian Marcussen said:

How does this work on ones main daw, or regular word/gaming/office PC?

Christian, is this question related to the original topic as such?

/Mattias

@Christian Marcussen said:

How does this work on ones main daw, or regular word/gaming/office PC?

Christian, is this question related to the original topic as such?

/Mattias

ummm, i would think so? I'm asking how this memory tweak affects ones non-slave computers. My main daw is the same one i use for things like writing/gaming/emails etc - So to me, and others in the same situation its quite relevant and related.... Maybe I'm not understanding your question correctly - I mean, how can it not be related?

Ok, I just wanted to check...now I understand your question perfectly. [:)] Basically the main DAW/office/gaming machine is course affected the same way your slaves are.

For your DAW it would mean that you can use more memory in that one as well. Depending on the sequencer you use you may need to LAA patch the exe of course.

For office use I don't see that it would change the performance much unless you're working with memory-intensive tasks and apps that are LAA.

For a gaming machine you could possibly run into issues related to graphics cards if you're using a high-end card as the drivers might require lots of kernel-mode memory.

Did that answer something??

/Mattias

Indeed it does. Thanks[:)]

I just wanted to publicy thank Mattias for all the help on such an important matter - increasing RAM for our VI machines. As I see it, there is no greater stumbling block - limits imposed by RAM.

Thanks Mattias for all your help.

Rob

Thanks for the kind words Rob!

/Mattias

Hi Guys.....

Jumping on on the tail end of this one..... I have a couple of quick questions on the whole RAM / PC thing.

I want to updgrade my setup and purchase some slave computers. I use a G5 for my Main DAW - the slave computers are either going to be PC's (for Pro Ed in Giga 3 or VI's in Bidule Plogue) or G5's (for VI's only)

Q1. Am I right in assuming that no matter if I am using on a slave PC running Giga 3 (for the Pro Edition) or Bidule Plogue (for VI hosting) I am going to run into this 2GB RAM limitation? In other words is a PC only capable of allowing ANY app (GIGA 3 /SONAR/CUBASE / Bidule Plogue) to see just 2GB of RAM - unless I do the system tweeks you are all discussing to get it up to around 3GB?

Q2. If this is the case - on one machine could I install Bidule Plogue and get this app. to access 3 GB with a couple of my VI Library and also install GIGA 3 and have this app also access 3GB (meaning a total of 6 - 8 GB of physical RAM installed??) - would the PC do this - (I am thinking of some of the higher end CARILLON computer range.)

Assuming I go the Slave MAC G5 route - apparently I will get access to 3 - 3.5GB (approx) of RAM with Bidule Plogue. SO just trying to weigh up which way to go

PC's would be cheaper but the Mac route gets me a slight edge on the 2 GIG RAM ceiling therefore more power.

Am I missing anything - Any thoughts???

Thanks for you input

PaulM

@Another User said:

Q2. If this is the case - on one machine could I install Bidule Plogue and get this app. to access 3 GB with a couple of my VI Library and also install GIGA 3 and have this app also access 3GB (meaning a total of 6 - 8 GB of physical RAM installed??) - would the PC do this - (I am thinking of some of the higher end CARILLON computer range.)
PaulM

Giga3 uses kernel memory, so the most you will get is about 1.1Gb. Having done the memory tweaks to make this possible there are users who are loading another 1.3Gb in applications such as V-Stack, although it didn't work for me (for various irrelevant reasons).

There is no point in trying to get more than 4Gb RAM (and the last GB is mostly useless) as you can't use more than about 2.8Gb for sample loading however you look at it. If you machine is going to be a slave and nothing else, then the specs don't actually have to be that high, as you're likely to run out of RAM long before the CPU complains. This decision can be made when you have finalised your choice.

DG