ram? harddrive?
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Posted on Apr 05, 2008 06:44 pm
joep
Member Since: Feb 29, 2008
i am running acid 4 on my desktop and laptop pc's. my desktop was freezing and stuttering. i upgraded the ram to 512 mb and it stopped. my laptop already has 512 and is now doing the same thing. they both have very low hd, 30g i think. i just got a 350g external hd. i havent installed it yet. will this stop the stuttering on my lt? thank you. -joep
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Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Apr 05, 2008 06:49 pm It might- see, smaller HDD like the ones you've described have a low RPM speed, ussually 5400 or sometimes even lower depending on how old the computers are. All you'll have to worry about is wether or not your workload exceeds the i/o speed of the USB capabilities, which I can't remember off hand.
joepMember
Since: Feb 29, 2008
Apr 05, 2008 09:56 pm thank you. also the hd requires usb 2.0. my lt doesnt have that. do i just need to buy a usb hub to fix that? or am i screwed? -joep
Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Apr 05, 2008 10:34 pm I wouldn't recommend a hub, because that's going to slow down the connection even further than the USB 1.1 will. Given the computers sound old, for the desktop you can buy a USB 2.0 PCI card for cheap, but the laptop there's really no work around.
I, personally would upgrade :)
joepMember
Since: Feb 29, 2008
Apr 11, 2008 03:52 pm thankyou- joep
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Apr 15, 2008 12:38 pm For a lapop with usb 1.1, a 2.0 hub will do nothing as mentioned.
Now on a desktop, adding a seperate PCI USB hub comes reccomended off many sites so it does not share the same controller that your mouse, kb and every other device are attached to.
On the USB 2.0 i/o thingy, I can do 8 captures at 24/96 with my buffers at 256. From my recent experience I think the CPU\Ram become a factor before the USB interface does.
