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I have a consultation with regard to the hardware of computers, now I have a medium machine, an Athlon 64 X2 4800 with 2 GB of ram and video card of 256, I would like to know whether the programs that I use (SketchUp and Kerkythea) improve somewhat in the lead to 4 gb ram taking into account the programming of these two software would know someone respond? greetings
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Im not entirely sure about kerkythea, but i dont think SU would benefit especially form more RAM. If you want to increase the speed of SU and kerkythea you really want to get a processor with a few cores and a high clock rate, quite a bit pricier than more ram though.
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Su will benefit from RAM, but only up to 3 GB.
Every Gig you put extra in your rig will NOT be used by sketchup.
Why? Sketchup is a 32 bit app only. To adress more than 3Gb, Sketchup should be a 64 bit app (on a 64 bit OS off course).A 64 bit version of Setchup should be on top of the To-Do list for SU 7.
If it is not....SU is not ready for the (near) future (not even for present day if you ask me).A multicore PC will improve indirectly your editing speed, as you can have more than 1 application open without a speed drop.
However.....Don't expect a big speed improvement when SU is the only running app.
Current Sketchup is a monocore app, meaning all the SU activity is combined into 1 process (directed to 1 processor core).This also is something SU 7 should adress ASAP.
Well, it's a boring story really...... The number of posts about this handicap must be over a quadzilion by now.
Not that it would make a difference anyway....
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thanks for the responses, the theme of going from 2 to 4 GB of ram is above all to continue working on DUAL CHANEL as a microprocessor cores
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