Recommend me DDR3 RAM 16GB.

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  1. Claire the Lunatic

    Claire the Lunatic Active Member

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    Offloading my simulation on some kind of cloud computing service with no income as a uni student... Nice idea. Unfortunately, I didn't apply on any research grant... so not viable.
     
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    jw287962 Well-Known Member

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    btw what software you using for this physics stuff.
     
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    Claire the Lunatic Active Member

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    Light simulator on a laptop?
    Yeah, gooduck on that..
    My suggestion is for you to check for your bottle neck. See your memory, cpu and video card usage. If your program uses more that 16 gb of memory you are better of buying an ssd. If your cpu is doing 100% workload, an upgrade in memory is neglegi
    Do it in your computer lab...

    Doing rendering on a laptop is just going to be extremely tedious. If you really want to upgrade your laptop memory, first of identify your current bottleneck. Check CPU, memory and video card usage. If you have 100% CPU or video card usage, its useless to upgrade your laptop, even if you add your memory, it wont speed it up significantly. If that is not the case, look at your program memory usage. Rendering typically uses a lot of memory. If the program uses more than 16 gb, upgrading to an ssd is recommended for virtual memory speedup.
    If your program did a rendering like i did, i think the CPU could be the bottleneck.
     
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    wiseliu Well-Known Member

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    Ow yeah, i just remember. You can apply google cloud platform for free, and get $300 credit. Microsoft also offers free Azure platform for students via Microsoft Imagine, and AWS is free with limitations for 1 year.
     
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    No you can literally just download more RAM xD
    http://www.downloadmoreram.com/index.php
     
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    jw287962 Well-Known Member

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    seems like a virus. You sure thats legit? how does something that is hardware become upgradeable through software
     
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    It's a very old joke, fam. On less serious note you could always rent time on a supercomputer, that'll alleviate most of your problems for sure!
     
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    Ok. My current option seems to be 2 x 8 GB.

    Fake. I downloaded 4 GB ram, they give me 4097 kB.
     
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    capsunica 『VOID DRAGON』

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    i am sure that would take more money than buying a new laptop
     
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    well since its a notebook,
    then get a external hard drive, place all the files that are important in that, reset the whole notebook and restart it again, which would simply erase everything you downloaded. this should help for the moment until you actually get a (another ) new one.
     
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    If he stretched it enough he could probably get it written off on the budget, along with any other simulations his lab group needs. But hey, one can dream.
     
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    capsunica 『VOID DRAGON』

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    if that is 2000$ you can get a nice alienware and all problems solved
     
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    jw287962 Well-Known Member

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    lol. you actually downloaded it?
    TBH. i dont think that is very good option. that won't make ur processor better, it wont change your graphics card. only thing it might do is not have as many apps running and lower your RAM.
    (alos, you can just stop apps from running without deleting the app)
     
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    capsunica 『VOID DRAGON』

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    i am sure even that is problematic
     
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    It doesn't matter if you're using a dual core laptop.

    It's impossible to get quad core on a laptop so you might as well think about getting SSD
     
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    Claire the Lunatic Active Member

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    200, less.
     
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    capsunica 『VOID DRAGON』

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    if it the gpu acceleration is not enough ....getting an ssd wont matter much bro
     
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    jw287962 Well-Known Member

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    i dont think ssd will help 2 much TBH. it just might make a game OPEN faster. not make the or an app open faster. Oo. not what the app is doing. like rendering.
     
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    Well... Intel has hyperthreading. AMD do have quad core.