Memory or processor?

[Hulk]

Suppose I wanted to edit audio files on my PC.

Which is more important, memory size or processor speed?

Would having 2GB speed up the editing as opposed to having 256 or 512mb? Would there be a big difference?

 

[Jako]

If this is an upgrade, I'd just go with some more memory to see if that helps. A lot easier to do and you should be a huge improvement if you're going from anything below 1024mb.

 

[Nenu]

If you run out of memory you need more memory regardless of CPU speed.
We arent going to be able to tell you if you will run out of memory (unless you tell us what you are using, how much free memory you have, the operations you will be performing on how many samples loaded into memory and the size of each sample).
You can do that so try it and see if you run out of memory.

 

[tzk]

Editing files: memory...
Encoding audio files: processor.

Though I would do memory first.