On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:22:27 GMT, "Tess" wrote:

>Processor speed is the MAIN thing that speeds rendering. Your 256 MB of RAM
>should be plenty but Win2k can do nothing but benefit by adding more; I
>wouldn't upgrade to more RAM unless you just have some cash burning a hole
>in your pocket. And I'm jealous that you have a 1 GHz to work on! Still
>stuck at 850 here...

I wouldn't worry too much 'bout that...! ;-)
When I went from 450MHz to 800MHz (with no
other changes), my Premiere render times
dropped only by a third. I would expect
very little improvement in render times
going from 850MHz to 1000MHz... (BTW, going
from 128megs RAM to 256megs of RAM, then to
384megs, I found no difference in render
times - though the system was more stable
with 256 when reading some unrendered audio
filters, especially the parametric EQ.
Perhaps, as AI suggests, 512megs of RAM
is the magic number...;-)