The RAM arrived from Crucial.com at 2:30pm of Friday, holy crap that was fast. I placed my order at 10:20am on Thursday and had it at my door 26 hours later. Needless to say I am very impressed with the service I received and would highly recommend them to anybody needing a RAM upgrade.
So, did it fix my video editing troubles? Well, to test it out I fired up Premiere Elements and edited my daughters birthday party video that I had been neglecting for a few weeks. With the new upgrade not only did I not have any slowdown when importing and editing my files, I was even able to listen to iTunes and check my Facebook going back and forth between Premiere and Internet Explorer with no problems. Doesn't sound like much, but it's a huge improvement for me. There was no way I could do anything else while running Premiere before the upgrade.
Now the down side to the upgrade...it's left me wanting more. It's such a huge improvement that it's led me to thinking about how to get more. More speed, more processing power, more hard drive space, more FPS on Microsoft Flight Simulator 10. It's a never ending cycle with me.
So as it stands this is what I'm running on my main PC, keeping in mind that it's almost a year old.
-Dell E520
- Intell Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 GHz
- 4 GB of PC-4200 DDR2
- 250GB 7200 rpm hard drive + 250GB external USB hard drive for back ups
- 256 MB Nvidia 7600GT video card
Definitely not the best or fastest system in the world but it does everything I need it to now that I've upgraded the RAM. Now that I'm editing more and more video I'd definitely say 4GB or RAM is more like a bare minimum for editing the MPEG-2 files created by the JVC Everio's. Anything less will only frustrate you, and make you procrastinate when it comes to editing the footage you shoot.
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