How Much RAM needed?

[shiraz]

When burning DVD-r, PC always crashes, is this due to data overload?
Running with:
Win XP
AMD Athlon 1g
128 MB RAM

[Mr Snatcher]

Well at work I am running a p3 600mhz on 128 and it works...slow but works. I would go at 512mb ram, I think thats pretty much the norm nowadays and its affordable. At home I have a p4 3.3ghz oc'ed of course with 512mb dual channel and that flies. I believe minimum requirements are 400mhz and 128mb ram for the sony, which is probably similar to any other brand.

[handyguy]

U need more memory, with 128m you only have about 25M after loading your computer. memory prices are really going up now so hurry up.

[shiraz]

Great, thanx guys.

[king$nake]

I have the same thing and it works great,
AMD Athlon 1g
128m of ram
160g of HD
toshiba 4x burner

I use dvddecrypter dvdshrink and nero, as needed, and my coaster count is amazingly low, and usually caused by user errors.

[elperra]

I have the same thing and it works great,
AMD Athlon 1g
128m of ram
160g of HD
toshiba 4x burner

I use dvddecrypter dvdshrink and nero, as needed, and my coaster count is amazingly low, and usually caused by user errors.
Same here, I have 128 ram,30g, HD and pioneer 105 with dvddecrypter, shrink and nero and no coasters so far , 150 out of 150 burns. :)

[PhilEnfield]

@ king$nake & elperra .....

Just out of interest, what sort of Shrink times are you guys acheiving ?

[elperra]

PHILENFIELD: It takes my about an hour for a 4 plus gig movie, and double that with deep analysis.

[nimbles]

yeah i have a friend who has a PIII 800mhz, with 128mb- so i know it'll work, takes him around 1.5hrs per pass (so 3hrs roughly with deep analysis)

takes me about roughly half an hour per pass with an 2200+xp, 512mb

[Jesterrace]

I had a Celeron 1.1GHZ with 128 MB RAM and it ran it fine. As mentioned though it took me a little over an hour and if I used the Deep Analysis it would take about 2 hours. I am now running A P4 2.4GHZ 800MHZ FSB and 256MB DDR PC3200 RAM and it takes me about 30 minutes with a Deep Analysis. :D

[elperra]

I had a Celeron 1.1GHZ with 128 MB RAM and it ran it fine. As mentioned though it took me a little over an hour and if I used the Deep Analysis it would take about 2 hours. I am now running A P4 2.4GHZ 800MHZ FSB and 256MB DDR PC3200 RAM and it takes me about 30 minutes with a Deep Analysis. :D
Wow! 30 minutes with deep analysis that is fast. I thought that with a faster computer would be a little faster but not that fast. Too bad I can't afford a new computer now. But I don't burn that many movies or game so I am ok for now.:)

[takeitup]

DVD9 - 7.35GB
Shrink it down to 4.35GB
Deep Analysis on
Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz
256MB ram

total time: 53min

Does anyone in here with an intel pentium 4 3.0+Ghz with HT on at 800mhz FBS and try to shrink your dvd9 with dvdshrink and deep analysis on before? how long does it take you to shink it down to 4GB?

since 2.4ghz take 30 min, I hope that 3.0ghz take around 15 - 20min

I hope there would be a Pentium 5 soon so we can see the 5.0ghz and above cpu! plus there would probably be an L4 3mb or 4mb cache with an upgraded 1200mhz FSB or 1.2Ghz FSB! :D

maybe then we can convert this maybe down to only 5 - 10min even with deep analysis on!!!

[Jesterrace]

By that time dual-layer burners/media will be fast enough that this whole thing would be a non-issue. ;)

[takeitup]

OH YEAH, i forgot about the dual-layer burner, full dvd 9 over dvd9 by that time then. buy by then, don't you think there would probably be another format of video out :(

[Templar]

Do it right, Ram is cheap...........You won't regret it.

http://img1.imageshack.us/img1/5828/system.jpg

[takeitup]

Wow! How long does it take you to encode your dvd9 with dvdshrink with deep analysis on?

[geobon]

Movie size 6.89gb with P4 3.02 (512mb ram) 19mins with deep analysis on

[nimbles]

:eek: bugger thats it i'm getting a p4.

Dunno about shrink but there's a few encoding progs out there now that are optimised for pentium tech.

[Jesterrace]

It all depends on your processor and RAM as well. I don't recommend a chip that has anything less than 800MHZ FSB at this point nor RAM that is less than PC3200.

[Templar]

I'm typically in the 17 -18 Minute range with deep analysis. 8 or 9 minutes otherwise.

[takeitup]

that's great timing, but doesn't 800MHZ FSB only run at that speed is when you have a ram that is at 800mhz too? so far, the fastest ram that i saw around my local computer store is 400mhz.

[Templar]

It's dual channel DDR (i.e. double pumped) so it's effectively 800 Mhz.

[Jesterrace]

Yup not like the crappy old SDRAM. BIG DIFFERENCE between the two. ;)

[geobon]

It all depends on your processor and RAM as well. I don't recommend a chip that has anything less than 800MHZ FSB at this point nor RAM that is less than PC3200.Why? Im running a P4 3.02 at 533fsb and getting times of 19mins, Templar's is a P4 3.06 running at 800fsb and its only 1 to 2 mins faster but bear in mind he's running 1gb of ram and im only running 512 which will also make a difference.

[Templar]

Did I mention that my speeds will stay consistant, even if I am also downloading several streams from a newsgroup, and fragging someone in UT2004 while Shrink does it's thing?

It's probably a combination of hardware, and not just the RAM.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9769/Hardware.jpg

[geobon]

Im not saying its just the ram m8, 9 out of ten times im using shrink im D/L from an ftp and it dosen't make any noticable difference, My point was just in regards to jesterraces comments stating he wouldn't recommend anything under 800mhz fsb, im just stating 533 is easily adequate for most if not all tasks with good results.

[Templar]

I have noticed that having it work on a different HD than your OS is on can make a difference though. Especially when you are multitasking off your primary drive. I mean a physical HD, and not just a different partition. I agree that the overall differences are pretty insignificant. I'm not in THAT big of a hurry. I don't need the robotic arm that extends out and stamps my copy out in 3 seconds...........yet. :)

[Jesterrace]

Im not saying its just the ram m8, 9 out of ten times im using shrink im D/L from an ftp and it dosen't make any noticable difference, My point was just in regards to jesterraces comments stating he wouldn't recommend anything under 800mhz fsb, im just stating 533 is easily adequate for most if not all tasks with good results.
I was simply making that comment because that is the way everything is going now. There was about $16USD difference between the 533MHZ FSB and the 800MHZ FSB. I wasn't saying that 533MHZ is worthless, I am just saying that at this point it would be a good idea to get the 800MHZ FSB when the cost differential is so minimal.

[geobon]

Its minimal now m8, it wasn't 3 months ago, anyhow its a 800fsb board i have so its fully upgradable, It was running a 2.4 @ 800fsb but when i got the chance of a P4 3.02 533fsb for a very very very good price (£40 eBay last minute bid) i took it, and am more than happy with its performance.

Templar?
How did you copy your device manager like above?

[psibob84]

just press alt and print screen then go into paint and paste

[Templar]

just press alt and print screen then go into paint and paste
yup, exactly