Would more ram help?

jnmbhj · November 30, 2014

I currently have 16 gb of corsair vengence 1866 ram. Should I get some more ram? I will be doing a lot of video editing and photo editing, once I get 2 tb wd black drive and a second 280x. But will i see a noticeable improvement in render times? I know that In gaming its not going to make any difference.

Btw i have the 8350. 256gb samsung 840 pro and 1tb of seagate sshd(was a mistake)

PixelPips · November 30, 2014

In render times? probably not. You will see somewhat of an improvement when it comes to loading and scrubbing film, but it probably won't be worth it. I'd sugguest a second SSD and set that up as the caching and editing drive only.

AsGoodAsAHacker · November 30, 2014

Ive read that Rendering is better with High amounts of Ram, 16GB+ and runs EVEN BETTER when your sticks are properly assembled to run in Dual, Tri, or quad channeling. Each resulting in minutes shaved off per hour of rendering time. So, If you have 16GB now, make sure its running in the most channels possible. If you can only run Dual but you have a quad board, buy more Identical sticks and run it in quad channeling. Or Tri. whatever your Mobo supports.