topic Re: i bought more ram in Installation & update

i bought more ram

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:41:14 GMT

i had 1gb of ram. now i have 2gb of ram.
pc3200 ddr 400 to be specific.

i notice that my render times are not twice as fast.
why not?

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 04:09:52 GMT

Krikey.
The extra RAM lets your machine create larger models without saving the 3D file to disk.

When ArchiCAD is forced to save to disk, a tedious and slow process called "swapping" occurs where the CPU is forced to switch the file bits around because the machine isn't "big" enough.

So RAM doesn't speed you up. It keeps you from slowing down.

See attached for the result I hoped for when I put more ram in my machine. Never happened.

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 04:45:57 GMT

That's funny, you don't seen to have that much hair from the back....

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:01:31 GMT

"Robbin' people with an upgrade fee…
i bought more ram and the ram won."

the kind of song Sonny Curtis and the Click-ettes

would have written were they not sixties popsters.

check out the real ad here:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2532919

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:13:16 GMT

gee. i guess you really are canada's funniest architect.

p.s. how do i get more house icons to light up beside my name?

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:14:12 GMT

start answering other people's questions for a year or so.

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:18:11 GMT

so, on another topic, what do you think of the switch from powerPC to Intel for Apple? With this have any affect on the Unix performance advantage the Dual G5's have over PC's?

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:34:00 GMT

Advantage??? Marketing.
A year from now, the entire picture will have changed.

My prediction is:
-- that Apple will remain a build quality and visual style leader regardless of CPU,
-- that this is a GOOD THING for the Mac community because chips should get cheaper and we'll get the speed, especially in a laptop with Mac OS.
-- that Microsoft will die
-- that Steve Jobs will become King of Sony
-- that this fourth bump here near the back of your skull means that you will live long and prosper, but stay away from Bangkok. What an apt name for such a seedy place!

Re: i bought more ram

__archiben — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:43:29 GMT

Dwight wrote:
... but stay away from Bangkok. What an apt name for such a seedy place!

i can't let a comment like that pass without jumping in to defend the big BKK! bankgkok's full name is 'grungthep mahanakorn amorn rattanakosin mahinthara ayuttaya mahadilog pop noporat ratchatani burirom udom ratchaniwet mahasatahn amornpimahn awatansatit sakatattiya witsunugam prasit' which translates (almost) literally as 'city of angels'! and i'll bet it's far less seedy than it's younger namesake on the californian coast . . .

~/archiben

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:58:22 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
... 'city of angles'!

Equal angles, right angles, steel angles?

Re: i bought more ram

__archiben — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:16:31 GMT

s2art wrote:
~/archiben wrote:
... 'city of angles'!
Equal angles, right angles, steel angles?

oops! that'll be the architect in me coming out . . .

~/archiben

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:31:36 GMT

Didn't check your spelling on "grungthep mahanakorn amorn rattanakosin mahinthara ayuttaya mahadilog pop noporat ratchatani burirom udom ratchaniwet mahasatahn amornpimahn awatansatit sakatattiya witsunugam prasit", just take your word for it.

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:55:01 GMT

rungthep mahanakorn amorn rattanakosin mahinthara ayuttaya mahadilog pop noporat ratchatani burirom udom ratchaniwet mahasatahn amornpimahn awatansatit sakatattiya witsunugam prasit

is spelled correctly.

Re: i bought more ram

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:18:50 GMT

No it isn't, you missed the "g" (said the actress to the bishop)

Re: i bought more ram

Dwight — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:34:55 GMT

rungthep is yet another Thai word changing the entire meaning of the phrase to "City of free ArchiCAD."

Re: i bought more ram

__archiben — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:45:51 GMT

Dwight wrote:
rungthep is yet another Thai word changing the entire meaning of the phrase to "City of free ArchiCAD."

"rungthep" is a brand of wickedly fierce cigarettes sold for next to nothing on street corners, so actually changes the translation to 'ciggie of free angels'. keep up!

~/archiben