Is it possible..another RAM question

I was at OWC site and wanted to upgrade my RAM for my iMac 24" (2007 model). I initially thought that my iMac (2007 iMac 7,1) maximum RAM was 4GB. However, to my surprise, OWC listed as 6GB as max. Curious, I went to my local Fry's electronic and picked with a 4GB stick and wow...it worked!! My iMac is now showing 6GB! I do see a faster response. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.4. So here are my questions: First, is it really true that my Mac is actually seeing 6GB and using all 6GB or is it just showing 6GB but using only 4GB? Also, if one slot can recognized the 4GB, what about upgrading the other slot to 4GB and getting a total of 8GB? Will this work?
Every where I read, even at crucial and apple tech support site indicated that my Mac can only use max of 4GB...but apparently I'm only 6GB now and hope to push the envelope to 8GB. Will this be possible or is my Mac showing 6GB but I'm actually using 4GB and the effect I'm seeing is only a placebo effect? Thanks for all the help guys!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Apple says 4 GB, but it has long been established that both of the Mid 2007 models can use 6GB. It cannot use 8 GB, so do not waste your money.
Dah•veed

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Another RAM question / sorry haha

Hi
I operate an early 2008 MacPro im going to upgrade.
I currently have 4GB of RAM - 4 x 1GB sticks.
I could simply buy 4 extra sticks of 1GB which fills up the 8 slots - all being matched and evenly distributed across the risers etc.
What i was wondering, what if i was to get 2 x 2GB sticks -
would i install the 2 x 2GB on the spare 2ports on riser A, OR
Do i install the 2x2GB on riser A and move the 4 x 1GB on B, OR
Do i leave the 4 x 1GB across the 2risers and install a 2gb stick on A and the other on B - is that a matched pair?
As you can see - even with all the memory posts in this forum im still no clearer in my own situation, if anyone could be kind enough to point me in the right direction it would be greatly appriciated.

Hiya and wlecome to Apple discussions.
I found a discussion (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=421391) that it saying in essence that a matching (suitable) pair of RAM sticks should be installed at the bottom (moving the exisiting ones up, if need be - but you should have free slots); you can find out by going to the Apple in your finder bar, clicking "About This Mac" and then "More Info"; under "memory" (in the new window) it will tell you the empty slots.
The memory wiring diagramme was here:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=1bc485fb68017d805b88263c72d4e023&attac hmentid=99178&d=1201245197
hope that helps

HP dv9629ca Laptop (Ram Question)

Here is a RAM question. The Laptop had 2 one Gigabyte SO-DIMMs with them both installed the PC would not boot. the lights would come on but the screen remained black. I thought it was a RAM problem since when I would only put in a single stick of RAM the computer Booted no problem. I figured the one ram was BAD. Yet when i bought a 2GB SO-DIMM and added it to the 1GB already inside the computer wouldn't boot just like before. so I removed both rams and Put the 2GB stick in where the other was working and It shows 2GB now. I Know the Laptop maxes out at 4GB of RAM with a 64bit version of Windows installed. Is it possible to find a 4GB SO-DIMM and put it into the Slot that works or will it only accept a maximum of 2GB per Slot?
Laptop Details
AT newegg.ca they have a Single SO-DIMM that is 4GB the Laptop Max is 4GB. Not sure if it would read 4GB coming from a single SO-DIMM

Here are the specs for your HP Pavilion dv9629ca Notebook Computer and here is the HP Pavilion dv9500, dv9600, and dv9700 Entertainment PC - Maintenance and Service Guide for your computer. Both pieces of information indicate that 4GB (2 X 2GB) is the maximum. 2GB is the largest size supported in each slot.
You may wish to clean the slots or reseat the memory... you may also want to inspect the slots for debris or bent contacts.
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Another newb question: multiple virtual servers

Hi, I have yet another ignorant question. I have several unrelated web projects that I am working on, and I would like to be able to set up a virtual server for each one for testing purposes, such as: http://project1, http://project2, http://project3. Can someone tell me if this is doable, and if there are any tutorials/resources on this for someone who has 0 experience running a web serer? Sorry for being so ignorant!

Yes, it is doable.
You can setup virtual server either by IP or by name.
If you have one IP, and want to set them up by name (ex. http://project1, http://project2, http://project3) you can do so easily with this type of configuration:
<virtual-server>
    <name>mydomain</name>
    <http-listener-name>http-listener-1</http-listener-name>
    <host>*.mydomain.com</host>
    <document-root>/www/domain</document-root>
</virtual-server>
<virtual-server>
    <name>myotherdomain</name>
    <http-listener-name>http-listener-1</http-listener-name>
    <host>*.myotherdomain.com</host>
    <document-root>/www/myotherdomain</document-root>
</virtual-server>
....The important part here is that
a) all virtual servers share the same HTTP listener
b) which virtual server serves the request depends on the $HOST request header send by the client. Sun Web Server does the matching for you. It will match $HOST vs. the virtual server's host attribute. Depending on which site you connect to the right virtual server will be used.
c) if the $HOST request header does not match any of the virtual servers, then the default virtual server defined in the HTTP listener will be used.
To create a virtual server, use the Admin GUI, access the configuration, and then add new virtual server. Or use the following CLI command.
wadm> create-virtual-server --config=myconfig --http-listener-name=http-listener-1 --document-root=/www/docs/myserver.com --host-pattern=myserver.com --log-file=../logs/myserver.com-error_logs myserverHost pattern will be used for matching. Some of this elements might be optional.
Hope that helps. And keep the questions coming :D
Edit: Also check the documentation
Using Virtual Servers in SJS Web Server 7.0

JUST ONE MORE RAM QUESTION

can someone do a quick test for me...
1. can someone open up safari and iMovie together and see how much RAM the 2 use together
2. then, see how much they take up separately
3 also, for another RAM test, can someone open up both the apps. in iWork (not the microsoft package) and see how much RAM the two take up together, and then separately
4. then the same thing with Front Row
thanks, i'm just really trying to decide whether to get the Core Solo with 1 GB of RAM or the Duo with 512 mb of RAM, and those are the main apps. i will use
also, if you have front row running, can you do other things at the same time?

Get the solo with 1GB, then upgrade the chip later, costs will be down quickly with the next 64 bit core comin out, and have an even faster duo Yonah down the line as well. Your apps will run fine with 1GB of RAM, I recommend at least 1GB for either the DUO or the Solo. Even the in store mini demos are runnning 1GB I hear, Duo or Solo. With memory creeps, doesn't matter if you have 1 or 2 CPUs, you're still bound to RAM limits.
My personal experience with the solo at 512 was it was unbearable just doing nominal tasks, went to 2GB and she smokes on anything, I imagine 1GB will be good as well.
Can't wait to toss my new Seagate Momentus in there, then a Merom chip down the road. Which by then, a 2.0 Duo Yonah will be 250.

VERY SPECIFIC RAM QUESTION (not answered in prior topics)

I have a very specific RAM question. I've been pouring through the discussions and I see TONS of stuff about the proper way to upgrade RAM. I've done that before without incident, but here is my dilemma:
I'm using the 3.0Ghz, 8-core, MP currently with 8GB of the 667Mhz RAM (8x1GB). The memory is all matched from OWC and I have had no problems.
I just bought 16GB of new RAM from OWC (4x4GB).
I'm going to remove all 8 of the current 1GB DIMM's, and place two of the 4GB DIMM's in slots 1 & 2 on riser A, and two of the 4GB DIMM's in slots 1 & 2 on riser B. That will give me 16GB's in matched pairs on slots 1 & 2 of both riser A and B.
My question is this: Should I install two of my old 1GB DIMM's in slots 3/4 of riser A, and two of the old 1GB DIMM's in slots 3/4 of riser B (for a total of 20GB's)?
I've read that having all 8 slots filled = better performance but I'm not sure the mix of 4GB DIMM's and 1GB DIMM's.
Any Thoughts?
Thanks So Much,
Tom

Optimally you want matched quads in each Riser. However, Bare Feats did some memory benchmarks that you might wish to read regarding memory performance versus different configurations. As for proper installation see the following:
Mac Pro memory arrangement photos;
Mac Pro Memory Configuration.

Another simple questions

Hello friends:
Another simple question: I need to learn things about Oracle on my desktop.
My machine runs Windows 98. Oracle has some desktop product of its Database Line?
For example: Oracle Personal?
And Oracle Lite? What's the main difference between Oracle Personal and
Oracle Lite?
Thank You
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http://forums.crackberry.com/f71/flag-icon-47659/
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Another RAM upgrade question

Hi everyone,
I know there seems to be lots of RAM upgrade questions here but hey thats what forums are for.
I'm looking to upgrade my macbook's RAM it's currently got 2GB (2x1GB)
Is it possible to purchase 1x4GB and put that with one of my current 1GB sticks to create a total of 5GB?
I would be interested to know if this is possible or if anyone has tried it.
Thanks in advance
Scott

This will work if your MacBook is late '07 or newer.

Another RAM preview question. CS6

Hello everyone! I am currently working in After Effects on a video that uses an evaporation effect. When I use the RAM preview function only about 200-250 frames load out of 1200. At this point After Effects stops loading a RAM preview and just plays the few seconds of video it has loaded. I am trying to watch the entire 12 seconds of the evaporation effect.
I then tried to use footage that has no effects added to it, and the same thing is happening. I recently cleaned my disk cache, and this problem started happening. I feel like that is a coincedence though.
This problem was not happening a few weeks ago and after searching the forums I have not been able to find a solution that worked. Thank you for any helpful responses you can give.
Computer Specs: Macbook Pro. OSX 10.75. 2.2 GHz processor, 4gb Memory, 158 gb free storage
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Re: another build question! (sorry lol)

Hi all
right, after days and days of researching all the excellent articles on here ive had to write a post! So apologies for going over old ground
Im going to build a new CS5.5 rig (having had a guts full of Apple and their FCPX fiasco its back to pc!)
so although i appreciate the 990x o'c is prob best option, bang for buck is leading me down the sandybridge i7 2600k o'c option on p67 mobo with 16gb of ram (option to take to 32 down the line when the chips are out)
anyway, im sorted on chip mobo (msi big bang marshal p67), nivida 570 etc , its the drives im struggling on!! Im edit avchd video and some after effects, small amount of 3d, and in FCP i always transcoded everything to prores. Now on cs5.5 it looks like real time performance is possible with high end hardwear.
So mobo, ram, and chip aside, my HDD config im unsure on, ive not really got the cash to go crazy with raid controllors etc, but understand need for seperate drives, etc and tbh might even go downt he cineform route as a prores alternative (prob avoiding hassles of drive speed with avchd)
im thinking as the SSD's are now dropping in price and the ocz are producing these 500 mb r/w speed sata 6 120gb drives for a reasonable price, would 3 of these drives (one for os, one for media , one for scracth disk ) be a good set up or is it a waste of cash and should i raid 0 from bios/mobo?
I appreicate that 120 gb drives for media etc are small, but i would take project media from another much large backup drive and just use the 3x ssd set up as working disks for editing & os? once project over, clear out drives to larger back up and start new project!
Its either that or i go SSD as bootdrive, but some sort of cheap raid set up for my scratch disk, media drives? prob is if i do that, from what ive read (brain dead now) i would be best off with 2 x raid 0 as scratch disk and orginal media respectively when workign with avchd
HOWEVER, on my mobo there are only 4 sata 6 ports, so if i use one for ssd boot drive, and then im left with 3 x sata 6 ports and another 4 x sata 3 ports to raid on? how does this work? any point in getting the sata 6 drives as one would be stripped with a sata 6 drive plugged into a sata 3 port (this was my reasoning behind using 3 small sata 6 ssd's plugged to the sata 6 ports and rest of sata 3 ports as storage and backups!
confused lol!! I just want the overclocked sandybridge system with decent gpu card, as much ram as possible at present, but im thinking my bottleneck will be in the HDD config! any suggestions are much appreicated! im not that techy so whilst have read all the articles am more confused now (plus normally a mac user, so its out of the box configuration usually!) for what its worth looking to purchase something from scan uk in terms of parts! total build cost including a reasonable screen £2,000
many thanks

You have a limited budget, especially in the UK, but then don't we all?
Going for the 980X will triple the cost of the CPU, but even when editing AVCHD material the gains are not sizable enough IMO to justify that cost differential. Add to that you will need 24 GB instead of 16 GB and that carries an additional price tag. Both factors will easily move you out of budget range if you want to have a number of disks and possibly a raid controller.
Did you read my article To Raid or not to Raid, that is the question. It can be found under the Overview tab at the top of the page? (Currently responding from abroad on my notebook and not having the bookmarks available for easy linking). http://forums.adobe.com/thread/525263
With media and projects I would advise against a raid0, because of the lack of redundancy. For pagefile, media cache and previews (scratch disks) raid0 is quite OK. They will be recreated if needed. The performance gain from a raid0 for media and projects over a parity raid is easily offset by the time spent on making backups. For parity raids do not use WD Caviar Blacks, but look at the Hitachi 7K3000 line of disks.
The question of Sandy Bridge versus the old X58 platform is essentially one of 'which limitations are acceptable to me'.
The Sandy Bridge is a great processor and at least the equal to the old i7-9xx quad cores. However, the platform, the chipset, has its shortcomings in terms of PCIe lanes. Whether that is relevant to you, only you can decide. But hey, we would be in serious trouble if Intel did not manage some progress in two years time from the i7-920 to the i7-2600K. So of course the i7-2600K shows much more potential than the almost retired 920, it is the chipset for the Sandy Bridge that is 'flawed' in comparison to the X58, but that is no surprise, since the Sandy Bridge is a 'middle-of-the-road' platform and the X58 was a 'high performance' platform.
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DKA790GX Platinum RAM questions

Hello everyone. I've done quite a bit of thinking about what direction to take for my next computer and I've decided that I really like the features that the DKA790GX Platinum motherboard has to offer. However, I've heard some people say that they've had issues when dealing with DDR2 1066 RAM not on the MSI board specifically, but other 790GX based motherboards. Will DDR2 1066 run in dual channel mode with a Phenom processor installed? Some people have said that it wouldn't. I plan on getting 2x2GB chips for a total of 4GB of RAM if that information will be of use. Secondly, I've been eyeing some of the high end Mushkin memory since I've had nothing but great luck with them. This memory uses 2.0 - 2.1 volts. I don't think it would be a problem, but the motherboard specs specifically say that 1.8v memory is the standard supported. Do you think that all will be well when using the higher voltage memory?
I guess I have one more question before signing off that doesn't have much of anything to do with RAM. I'm foregoing getting a Windows OS for this computer initially due to the possibility that MS will be releasing Windows 7 on the market sooner than anticipated (supposedly in the first half of next year). If that OS turns out to be a great deal better than Vista, I'd rather just purchase an OS once rather than upgrade 6 months or so later. Having said that, I plan on using Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) until I can make a good decision on which version of Windows to support. How would I go about upgrading my BIOS since I won't have a Windows OS initially? I just looked through the readme and it still says to use an ME or 98 boot disk to flash the BIOS. I figured maybe somebody else may give me some tips on doing this outside of Windows. That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all advice that you can give me.

The cpu is designed to run four sticks, but at 1.8 volts. That's where the catch is because most memory rated at 1066 uses higher voltages The Bios Kernal Developers Guide AMD has posted on their web site from April does indicate what you are stating, but if you contact AMD support, they will tell you otherwise. I swear AMD is still beta testing Phenoms long after they were released. Running the memory I have at 1066 is not supported by AMD, only 1.8 volt memory is. If the bios is written by the motherboard manufacturer to support the memory as mine obviously is on this board, it will work. Since MSI has gone to the trouble of supporting this memory and it is some of the first 1066 sticks made, I have to believe most other 1066 memory using voltages other than 1.8 will work. Below is the response I received from AMD several months ago on this issue concerning another manufacturer's board that is now in the trash for other issues. The manufacturer in their qualified vendors list stated the memory would work, but it never did. The e-mail is several months old now so one of the links no longer works. Not knowing the forum rules here very well, I did block the manufacturer's name and the tech's name. In the e-mail and in a follow up phone call, AMD is saying if the memory doesn't work, the motherboard manufacturer needs to fix the bios.
Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting AMD Customer Care.
AMD Phenom processors are able to support four DDR2-1066 memory modules which are JEDEC certified to operate at 1.8V.
Please be informed that the Kingston memory modules that you have is only certified to function within Jedec specification at 800MHz at 1.8V.
The 1066MHz specification validated by Kingston is out of spec and may not work.
You may either wish to check with A*** for updated BIOS support or run the 4 modules in DDR2-800 mode.
I have included the following links for your reference:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductI
http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KHX8500D2_1G.pdf
AMD Customer Care

PCI wireless possible? RAM location for 233MHz Power Mac G3?

Hello All!
I just added a free Power Mac G3 233MHz to my collection! For fun, I want to install 10.2.8, add 768 MB RAM, 40GB HD, PCI USB 2.0, PCI ATI 9200 and a PCI Macwireless or Aria wireless card. I want to keep the 233MHz CPU! My first question is, how do I install RAM? I pulled the cover and thought it would be in plain sight like the PCI area. Also, I found two PCI wireless cards online that will work with the 233MHz G3 under 10.2.8 using Airport software. Has anyone had luck using wireless? I searched the forum and found no results.
Thanks in advance! I'm glad to be part of the Beige G3 community!
-Craig

Craig303 wrote:
Hello All!
I just added a free Power Mac G3 233MHz to my collection! For fun, I want to install 10.2.8, add 768 MB RAM, 40GB HD, PCI USB 2.0, PCI ATI 9200 and a PCI Macwireless or Aria wireless card. I want to keep the 233MHz CPU!
Since you have a good collection of Macs already, maybe think about what you want to use this machine for, and what upgrades you really need. The ATI 9200 may be overkill, since the stock 233MHz CPU will not really be fast enough to run any of the real-time 3D graphics apps that would require the 9200, however, you would be able drive multiple monitors, one-DVI & one-VGA, from the 9200, in addition to the built-in Macintosh video output. What specific apps do you want to run on it?
To use the built-in Macintosh video output with a standard VGA monitor you need a Macintosh to VGA adapter. There is an on-board VRAM slot that you can fill with a 4MB module to increase the color depth and resolution options to use a larger monitor on the built-in video card, if you decide you want to use the built-in video rather than a PCI video.
It might be hard to find, but maybe you could get a used ATI Radeon Mac Edition for a little less money, but if you want to buy a new PCI video with warranty, I think the 9200 is the only option.
One thing that is abysmally slow in the G3's is the on-board ATA33 which actually runs at about half-speed of what is expected. You are lucky to get 16 MB/sec throughput max. A good alternative, if you have the spare PCI slot, would be to add an ATA66 PCI card or better, which will also add Master/Slave support, but requires some creative ATA-cable origami to reach from the PCI card to the hard drives in the expansion bays, but it is possible. You could get roughyl 40 MB/sec from an ATA66 PCII drive. Booting and launching apps would be not quite twice as fast, but definitely noticeable.
The extra RAM you plan to get will definitely help, but if you lack enough RAM both OS 9 and OS X will use virtual memory swap space on the hard drive, so having that faster through put will also help improve general performance.
But, if it's just for fun and messing around this may not be an important issue for you anyway. Just something to consider.
You might be able to use an external wireless USB device (not sure if drivers are available for 10.2 for any on the market today) or wireless Ethernet adapter (no drivers needed, but still limited to slower 10BaseT speed on the G3), to free up one of the PCI slots for the ATA66 card. If the built-in Ethernet is still functional, can you just run a wire?
If you can get 10.3 I'd recommend that, 10.2 just seems to have been not quite as stable, but I really can't remember if that may have been due to Norton Utilities that I was also using at the time.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has some old do-it-yourself upgrade articles on the G3's.
http://www.otherworldcomputing.com/ also has good Mac-customer support and knowledge of compatible products.

Mac Pro 8 Core (2008) Hard Drive & Ram questions

Hi there,
I recently purchased a Mac Pro 8 Core 2008 Model with 2Gb ram and 320Gb Hard Drive (Got a great deal on it... paid $1,500.00 for it!!). I bought this computer exclusively for audio production work. I know I can upgrade up to 32GB of ram if I wanted to however, I have heard that the system won't recognize 32GB ram when running 32bit OS & Applications. I use Ableton Live 8.2 (32bit capable) and Logic Studio 9 (32bit & 64bit capable).. what is the highest amount of ram I should upgrade to without overkilling it? In other words... what is the highest amount of ram I can upgrade to that I will actually notice the difference and that the system will actually use @ 32bit?
Second question is regarding hard drives... I need at least 320GB for OS and core applications and at least 1 TB for storage... what is the most efficient, fastest and least expensive to upgrade the storage on this machine?
I really appreciate your comments on this one.

Someone with Mac Pro, but on OS X 10.6 Install forum, like some, has full suites of CS5, FCP and others, and had run out of space literally on 150GB boot drive.
Apps like iDVD tech note recommended the boot drive have 24GB of free space (unfragmented for best burn performance) to burn dual layer.
X-Plane can go anywhere but uses almost 60GB for full world support.
My rule of thumb is 50% free on boot drive to avoid fragmenting free space such that it causes problems and there is always good performance overall as well as for read/writes.
To say someone doesn't need xyz when maybe they rre right, and to argue with their own math?
OS X does not support TRIM or I'd see if you can go with 120GB SSD. One way to slim down boot drive of course, maybe you have, maybe not,
Move all the data and media files possible off the boot drive can save 100GB and improve I/O at the same time.
Move the entire home account folder (the above leaves a smaller 1GB home library only on boot drive) which really isn't totally necessary but nice for some.
WD Black Caviar 2TB $170 is fast and nice or $89 for 1TB (if you think you need A, then get 2 x as much storage).
2008s don't use 8GB DIMMs and 32GB is as far as they go.
ATI 5770/5870 or even Quadro 4000 graphics
did it come with a 4870? or 8800GT?

Oracle VM server RAM question

I am running two vm servers both with 16GB of physical memory installed. When I go in to check the memory specs for the servers using "free -m" or "cat /proc/meminfo" it only show a total of 577MB of RAM. Now I know this can not be true because currently we are running two guest CentOS machines and one Windows Server 2003 guest machine on one of the servers all with 2GB virtual memory. These machines do not seem to have any performance problems which leads me to suspect that the VM server is not reporting the RAM that is physically installed but rather it is reporting the total memory that it is using. I do not think it would even be possible to run two CentOS machines and one Windows Server 2003 with only 577MB of ram. Can anyone confirm that the 577MB I am seeing in the VM server is just what it is using? Thanks

I do see a few lines similar to this
"title Oracle VM Server-ovs (xen-3.4.0 2.6.18-128.2.1.4.37.el5ovs)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen-32bit.gz dom0_mem=564M
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.2.1.4.37.el5xen ro root=UUID=ee6eb40e-1c39-473b-b670-7131959cc839
module /initrd-2.6.18-128.2.1.4.37.el5xen.img"
You have answered my question. I just wanted to make sure that it was normal to not see the full physical memory installed. Thanks
Edited by: Paul_RealityTech on Oct 24, 2011 12:05 PM

FCE Ram question

I have a Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 Apple with 2.5 GB DDR@ SDRAM. FCE will occasionally drop frames during import of the miniDV tape. I am only using SD right now, but am concerned that when I buy the HD camera i'm looking at, I will have even greater trouble importing because my computer's running a little slow. If I upgrade my Ram to 4.5 GB, will this help substantially? or be hardily noticeable?
Thanks for the answers.

ok. that kinda answers a question I had. I WAS importing to a Lacie 2BigTriple via firewire 800 (1T, 106GB left), but i kept dropping frames. Since then, I imported to my boot drive (230GB, 150left), (I know, it's not the best, but after I transfered the media back the secondary firewire drive).
I also plan on buying a 1T internal Serial-ATA drive. I would then capture my media to that... and have a lot of space left.
So I'm kinda taking it that I maybe shouldn't even bother to buy more Ram... If it's not going to speed up the render times... idk thanks man. I guess... you possibly might be writing on the other topic I posted. Sweet. You rock.

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