Thread: Post Your Desktop

Originally Posted by jarrhead

I recently upgraded to Windows 7, upgraded my motherboard, went from 2-thread Dual core to 8-thread Quad Core, and went from 2GB RAM to 16GB RAM, and other upgrades and shit.

Here it is!

Jesus 16 gigs? You rendering video or somethin?

Originally Posted by LonelyTurtle

Jesus 16 gigs? You rendering video or somethin?

Music. Lots and lots of music. Using high-end sample libraries with over 100 instruments at once sometimes. (That can be over 500 lossless WAV sound files a second, plus real-time frequency shaping, compressing, filtering, monitoring, and metering, etc.)

If you didn't know, that's how movie soundtracks are made. The vast majority are not real orchestras; they are played on a piano which transfers the data to computer or clicked into a computer and done there)


This is an unrealistic example (as nobody would be using a lot of these useless things), but it actually uses LESS memory than I normally do. Just to give an impression of the amount of processing and streaming going on.