I think you should consider this;
One of our stations has 512Mb RAM and it works perfectly for anything up to
about 3 full sized appartments in a single file, after that the slowdown
becomes too big of an interference to work properly. On our other stations
we run with 1Gb -but- you should consider the fact that you can have 'ram'
or 'RAM'. We run with the Corsair Twinx Ultra LowLatency [2x512] which is
1Gb but it's faster and more stable at high speeds than other ram.
It's your choise: buy 2Gb which is 'slower' and a bit overdone for your
other software or.. buy 1Gb which is faster, maybe reach it's max. on huge
projects but, it will boost your other software a bit too. Or, most
perfectly, just hit the jackpot with 2Gb of CorsairTwinx [4x512 since this
is faster than 2x1Gb] or 4x512Mb Kingsotn HyperX modules which are slightly
cheaper and almost just as fast.
I myself haven't run into projects that don't run smoothly yet and I've been
up to a terrain with 3 times a 5-storey appartmentbuilding on a single
siteplan.
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> We have had a rep come to our office and give us a demo. We have asked
the tech that was with the rep about RAM requirements and we have looked at
the required specs from Autodesk. There seems to be a discrepancy. The
tech said that if we go with Revit we should upgrade all of our computers to
at least 2 Gb of RAM. I have used Photoshop and 3d studio max on less ram
than that and those 2 programs are real memmory hogs.
>
> Does Revit really need that much ram to run efficiently? What is most of
you running out there?
>
> Thanks,
> DaleWWW