Adding RAM to IPC?

You can add more RAM to most iPC consoles, but it's unlikely to give you any real benefit. The software just doesn't need any more memory. Additional RAM will get used as disk cache, but show files aren't that big.

The one time it might help is on older iPCs that have 512 meg. When you install new software or reimage the console it takes a *ton* of RAM becase of how EWF works. Because the DP8000 image is quite large, it's split out into a separate installer so we don't overwhelm EWF. Once the DP8000 firmware is installed, there's no further advantage of having extra memory.

The downside of installing more memory is that your console is now different from the others out there. We test every software release on the 5 versions of iPC that we shipped. If you change your memory configuration, you're now creating a different combination. It probably won't cause problems, but it could.

You can add more RAM to most iPC consoles, but it's unlikely to give you any real benefit. The software just doesn't need any more memory. Additional RAM will get used as disk cache, but show files aren't that big.

The one time it might help is on older iPCs that have 512 meg. When you install new software or reimage the console it takes a *ton* of RAM becase of how EWF works. Because the DP8000 image is quite large, it's split out into a separate installer so we don't overwhelm EWF. Once the DP8000 firmware is installed, there's no further advantage of having extra memory.

The downside of installing more memory is that your console is now different from the others out there. We test every software release on the 5 versions of iPC that we shipped. If you change your memory configuration, you're now creating a different combination. It probably won't cause problems, but it could.