Hello,

My computer is about 5 years old and I am having it upgraded from a Pentium 3 to Pentium 4, bigger C drive ( I have also and E and F drive)

My question please is how much RAM may anyone recommends for Poser? I have 750 now and am thinking of upgrading to 1 or 2 Gig.

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards,

Nancy (SophiaDeer)

if you can afford 2GB then that's what I would recommend. I just went from 1GB to 2GB and the difference was well worth the cost.

Thanks Farside....I will prob. go with 2GB then. Your reply is much appreciated.

I upgraded from a 1.9ghz P4 with 512 megs of ram to a 3ghz P4 with 2 gigs. I've had a HUUUGE increase in usability for P5 and have to point that at the ram, as the CPU increase wasn't that great. so for what it's worth 2 gigs all the way.

IMO, AMD give you more bang for the buck than Pents. Downside is, they tend to run hotter. Definitely get 2 GB RAM, though.

SamTherapy is correct on AMD but I use them exclusively. If you can afford 2 gigs of RAM. then consider this when choosing. There are several "speeds" of RAM avail. Make sure you dont get sucked into gettin the cheap on sale "single sided" DDR for your P4 board. Pay a little extra and get quality, double sided RAM with the minum MHz of your motherboard or higher. Here's why: If your P4 Mobo is a 400 Mhz (or 5 hundred and up for Pentium), then usually the buss speed of your Ram is what everything else will run. If ya get PC2700 RAM (333MHz). this will limit your system to run at 333 instead of it's intended 400, or 500 up.. (I have no idea what your new system will be or is)... Example: If your P4 Motherboard is an RDRam board, (pentium) then I dunno. just pay attention the the RAM "speed" as well as the "size"...

Thank you everyone for your reply!