quick question is avisynth able to take full use of ram now days?

[kopmjj]

Hi i havent been editing for a long time and i am about to buy an i5 2500k with 16gb ram. so i want to know what the maximum ram i can use on a heavy script?

[SSH4]

Because 64bit Avisynth unstable. because MT Avisynth 32bit mostly unstable....
So 32bit 2.6 ST/MT can handle only 2Gb max! And Usually avisynth crash on more than 1.5Gb allocated

[kopmjj]

ahh man so my rendering is only as good as my cpu speed? can someone with an 15/17 cpu tell me what fps they get on qtmg de interlacing when rendering? i will only buy the new cpu if it makes a significant improvement in rendering over my current amd x64 4200 i know its old now:P

[Fullmetal Encoder]

Originally Posted by kopmjj

ahh man so my rendering is only as good as my cpu speed? can someone with an 15/17 cpu tell me what fps they get on qtmg de interlacing when rendering? i will only buy the new cpu if it makes a significant improvement in rendering over my current amd x64 4200 i know its old now:P

Well, I have a Core i7 860 running at 2.8 GHz and Windows 7 and I can get by with QTGMC on DVD content running in "Medium" almost in real time. That's using 2.6 MT. But even in "Fast" the quality from what I've seen is far superior to the hardware deinterlacing that's available to me through madVR. A 2500K should be able to outdo this quite nicely. Although, honestly if I were you I'd just wait a few more months for Ivy Bridge which I'd expect to provide much better performance than 2500K especially with overclocking. And those chips would be in the same price range where the 2500K's are now.

[TheRyuu]

Originally Posted by SSH4

So 32bit 2.6 ST/MT can handle only 2Gb max! And Usually avisynth crash on more than 1.5Gb allocated

On a 64-bit operating system 32-bit avisynth can use up to 4GB so long as the application calling avisynth has the large address aware flag set.