I have a pretty old computer (about 6 years) but I've recently updated a few components such as ram and video card. I had 2GB of ram and now I have 6GB (all compatible) but I don't notice any difference. I had a GeForce 8800 and now I have a Radeon 6850. I'm doing some rendering but when I look at the task manager its saying my CPU is being used 100% and only 1.81GB of ram are being used. I don't think this is what's supposed to be happening. How can I fix this?
Cpu & ram
- Thread starter dyle
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Would need computer specs. Please download speccy
http://www.filehippo.com/download_speccy/
Install and run the program and then when its done, click on file menu, save as text file, then copy and paste everything in that file back here.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_speccy/
Install and run the program and then when its done, click on file menu, save as text file, then copy and paste everything in that file back here.
Here's what it says:
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz 55 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
6.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5K (LGA775) 42 °C
Graphics
SHARP HDMI (1920x1080@60Hz)
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Hard Drives
313GB Western Digital WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0 ATA Device (SATA) 32 °C
313GB Western Digital WDC WD3200JS-60PDB0 ATA Device (SATA) 29 °C
Optical Drives
DTSoftBusCd00
DTSoftBusCd01
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62L ATA Device
Audio
Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)
Ok, well rendering/encoding will use up all your cpu thats why you set it up and let it go and don't do anything else. Rendering is definately cpu intensive and not sure if upgrading to a quad or 6 core processor would help as you only have a dual core cpu right now.
If you maxed out at 1.8 gb of memory for the most intensive things you do then having 6gb won't make any difference. And if you don't play high end games then the video card won't make any difference either. Even with upgrading to quad core processor, rendering video still may put it at 100 percent usage.
I do play high end games and it does go over 2 gb of usage once in a while and I understand rendering will always eat up a lot of memory, but it should never take over 5 hours to render 450 frames of 715kb iff files. My buddy rendered his stuff out in 50 mins, so I know something is wonky with my computer. Will getting a quad core increase the performance, or is there a limitation to how much certain motherboards can handle? in which case if I want my desired result do I basically need an entirely new computer?
scarver101
New Member
rendering
Rendering will be faster the more cores your cpu has and the faster the cores are running . also the more cores you have more ram will be used as each thread uses x amount of ram.
Rendering will be faster the more cores your cpu has and the faster the cores are running . also the more cores you have more ram will be used as each thread uses x amount of ram.
claptonman
New Member
Yup. Rendering is very CPU-intensive. You might be able to upgrade your CPU. Just search for a CPU that can fit in a LGA775 socket on your MoBo.
The Flying Fish
New Member
An old computer (32 bit memory address bus) can only have up to 4GB, so you may notice even if you could max it you would only get to 4gb usage
The only problem with that statement is that the user is using a 64 bit Operating system and a 64 bit processor so he can utilize more then 4gb of memory.