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Originally Posted by munki
Not so much...
32 Bit OS can only handle so much ram...
My 32 bit machines even with some backend tags (updated versions of the old /3gb switch) Your renders will never use over 2gbs of ram effectively. A 64 bit machine that can multi process will handle everything much cleaner.
Most of my editing is done on a quadcore with 8 gbs ram, running vista 64, with dual nvidia gfx... I'm pretty proud of my little setup and how much it handles for me.
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You're right, on the truly massive edits 64bit with 8Gb RAM works extremely well. For my needs I chose 2*2Gb sticks of fast RAM to start out with and haven't felt the need to spend all that cash for 4Gb more since I have very nice memory timings on this RAM. Mine is more of an all purpose box and 64bit Vista still has some maturing to do before I want to switch. I have 64bit Ubuntu on a partition and like that... Its just going to be another year before 64bit is more mainstream.