tecton3d Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I am in need of upgrading my system and have everything nailed down but the amount of RAM. I'll be using Revit 2011 with very large files, and 3ds Max, Maxwell, Rhino, AutoCad, Sketchup, and the adobe suite. So, How much RAM is in your 64 bit system and have you found it adequate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buckley Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 12GB 1333MHz is perfectly adequate for me. I'm using 3DS Max, Revit, SketchUP, Adobe, AutoCAD also, i was initially going to go for 24GB but thought it was a bit excessive and figured that if I compensated on my RAM i'd be able to upgrade my processors to 6-core xeons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 thanks Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-MerlyN- Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 8Gb 1066MHz DDR3, and totally sufficent for me, max, vray and ps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 16 gb... maybe a little excessive, but it lets me work without worrying about poly counts when I have to rush an meet a deadline... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 thanks for the replies. The mobo has 12 slots so I'll put 6-2gb sticks in for now and see how working with 12gb's is. If I need more, I still have 6 slots to fill up prost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 12 gig for me too. is it exsessive? not really, it's like money - you can never have enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 12 gig for me too. is it exsessive? not really, it's like money - you can never have enough lol - indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinsley Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I don't konw if I would buy 2 gb pairs... get the 4gb pairs and save some slots to upgrade at a future time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 12 here. If you are working with large scale Revit projects, and lots of proxies the min would be 8, but 12 will give you a better buffer, 16 would not be overkill in your case. But... I would not use more RAM in your main machine than you have in any of your render nodes unless you like headaches and sorting through things when go to render. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camby1298 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 12gb. I had 8gb a couple months ago, and found that some our recent scenes were scrapping by with only 8gb. 12gb seems like it will cover everything now; but Im sure in 1-2 years, as scenes become more and more intricate, Ill be wanting 16gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buckley Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I don't konw if I would buy 2 gb pairs... get the 4gb pairs and save some slots to upgrade at a future time... exactly what i did, just get what you need for now and make it future proof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anejo Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 8g on my Thinkpad W510. Haven't had any issues yet. A good test was when i rendered an Evermotion scene. I'm using Max 2011, Vray, CS4 suite, autocad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I was at 4gb until recently, it was passable, but upgrading to 8 a few months back gave me a large boost in the ability to multitask (I can work on max AND photoshop at the same time, perish the thought.) I've got room to upgrade to 12 still, and probably will soon as the memory for this board is only ~200 @ 4gb. buying new, I've been ordering 16s. We've got some "shared" machines running with 24gb, and you can pretty reliably run 4-6 users at once on them working in revit, and still have room to peel off a cpu or two in a pinch for rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 12 gig for me too. did i say 12 gig? sorry, i meant 24 gig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 I don't konw if I would buy 2 gb pairs... get the 4gb pairs and save some slots to upgrade at a future time... thanks for the replies. The mobo has 12 slots so I'll put 6-2gb sticks in for now and see how working with 12gb's is. If I need more, I still have 6 slots to fill up prost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 12 here. If you are working with large scale Revit projects, and lots of proxies the min would be 8, but 12 will give you a better buffer, 16 would not be overkill in your case. But... I would not use more RAM in your main machine than you have in any of your render nodes unless you like headaches and sorting through things when go to render. That's exactly my concern... not so much Max, but the giant revit files that are now very common. Indeed ~ I won't have to worry about render node issues at the moment, but when I build one or two, they will have to match the RAM in the workstation... I don't like those types of headaches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 8g on my Thinkpad W510. Haven't had any issues yet. A good test was when i rendered an Evermotion scene. I'm using Max 2011, Vray, CS4 suite, autocad yeah, I hear they are necessarily large scenes but haven't worked with any yet. I was at 4gb until recently, it was passable, but upgrading to 8 a few months back gave me a large boost in the ability to multitask (I can work on max AND photoshop at the same time, perish the thought.) I've got room to upgrade to 12 still, and probably will soon as the memory for this board is only ~200 @ 4gb. buying new, I've been ordering 16s. We've got some "shared" machines running with 24gb, and you can pretty reliably run 4-6 users at once on them working in revit, and still have room to peel off a cpu or two in a pinch for rendering. I'll be the only one using this workstation but still, I'm probably (honestly) looking at upgrading to 24gb's within a year, as files get larger. I really doubt I need to spend for more than 12 right now... but I do like to work in Revit & Max at the same time while tweaking things for the .fbx export. Once the .fbx is what I want and am only in Max, I (obviously) close Revit, and sometimes reboot, to have all resources for Max and Photoshop... and of course Outlook never stops peppering my inbox:p did i say 12 gig? sorry, i meant 24 gig dammit STRAT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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