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Hagen:
So. ReadyBoost is just pagefile into usb stick.

What do u think, should I use this function in this system (no games):

Gigabyte GA MA770T-UD3
Sempron X2 190 2.5GHz
Corsair DDR3 XMS3 1333 2x2GB 9-9-9-24
Intel X-25M 160GB SSD sata2
Win 7 Ultimate 64

Shane:
With 4 GB of ram, and if you never come close to filling it, then I would say give turning off the page file a try. Just to see how performance feels to you.

Shane

Hagen:

--- Quote from: Shane on January 24, 2014, 09:47:01 am ---With 4 GB of ram, and if you never come close to filling it, then I would say give turning off the page file a try. Just to see how performance feels to you.

--- End quote ---

Turn off the page file?? I dont do that in my main system with 8GB because, as u said, "even when you have tons of memory Windows STILL uses the page file".
Is it so bad to give 512MB?

What about ReadyBoost? Do I enable it or leave it alone?

Shane:
I have my page file turned off. System isn WAY smoother since Windows isn't using the drive for memory. But having the page file off doesnt break anything, Windows simply keeps it all in RAM which is worlds faster than the HD.

What it comes down to is the slow speed of the drive compared to the great speed of memory. Ram can do 12 GB's per second or something like that. Memory speeds differ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM#JEDEC_standard_modules

MT/s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_%28computing%29


--- Quote ---at a transfer rate of 1 GT/s, the data rate would be 8 × 109 bytes/s, i.e. 8 GB/s, or approximately 7.45 GiB/s.
--- End quote ---

So DDR3 memory at 133 mhz can do 1066 MT or 1GT so almost 8GB/s a data. Where DDR3 at 266mhz is 2133 mt or 2 GT so almost 16GB/s. Now thats speed!

So why on earth, if I have the memory would I want Windows doing anything for the memory on the hard drive? So no page file and no more needing the drive for it.

Windows always uses the HD for it because IF their is a blue screen it needs the page file to write the info of the crash to the event viewer. BUT if I ever do start having blue screens I will turn the page file back on so I can then see the logs. But on a nice stable system I have no need for the page file :-D

This is simply what I like, doesnt mean you have to do the same. I am just a performance junkie lol

Shane

Hagen:

--- Quote from: Shane on January 24, 2014, 10:37:58 am ---I have my page file turned off. System isn WAY smoother since Windows isn't using the drive for memory. But having the page file off doesnt break anything, Windows simply keeps it all in RAM which is worlds faster than the HD.
--- End quote ---

I saw that u have your pagefile off. Probably I d had it off too with 12GB of ram.



--- Quote ---So why on earth, if I have the memory would I want Windows doing anything for the memory on the hard drive? So no page file and no more needing the drive for it.
--- End quote ---

In the past, sometimes when I opened many windows system hanged. I guess it was because of zero pagefile, so I set 512MB.

Now, I havent understood yet... should I enable ReadyBoost in usb stick(thats the point of the thread) or not?

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