installing corsair turboflash vista accelerator

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

I have a 2 month old Dell with Viv Core 2 Duo Processor 1.86, 32 Bit, 1 GB
Ram, Vista Premium, with aero etc activated, and a fast broadband connection.
Thanks to the sidebar Ram meter, I saw that when I have 4 or 5 windows open,
media center playing music, am receiving and sending emails, that the Ram
indicator is in the red, at 80-95%. I was advised by a PC technician that
since I don't play video games, use a camcorder etc it wasn't really
necessary to install more memory. I read about Corsair TurboFlash, it sounded
a cheap, simple way to increase memory, so I bought a 1GB USB stick. I
plugged it into one of the USB ports (any port is O.K??) the autorun dialogue
appeared, I clicked 'speed up my system' saw under 'computer' that it was
installed, but I haven't seen any change whatsoever in the Ram meter usage?
Perhaps it takes a while for the stick to store frquently used programmes? It
says plug and play - easy upgrade for all vista systems,but there were no
instructions! Is there anything I need to do to check it is compatible? Do I
have to do anything to configure the USB key? I'd be interested to hear of
other people's experiences and grateful for advice! Thanks!
 
I have a 2 month old Dell with Viv Core 2 Duo Processor 1.86, 32 Bit, 1 GB
Ram, Vista Premium, with aero etc activated, and a fast broadband
connection.
Thanks to the sidebar Ram meter, I saw that when I have 4 or 5 windows
open,
media center playing music, am receiving and sending emails, that the Ram
indicator is in the red, at 80-95%. I was advised by a PC technician that
since I don't play video games, use a camcorder etc it wasn't really
necessary to install more memory. I read about Corsair TurboFlash, it
sounded
a cheap, simple way to increase memory, so I bought a 1GB USB stick. I
plugged it into one of the USB ports (any port is O.K??) the autorun
dialogue
appeared, I clicked 'speed up my system' saw under 'computer' that it was
installed, but I haven't seen any change whatsoever in the Ram meter
usage?
Perhaps it takes a while for the stick to store frquently used programmes?
It
says plug and play - easy upgrade for all vista systems,but there were no
instructions! Is there anything I need to do to check it is compatible?
Do I
have to do anything to configure the USB key? I'd be interested to hear of
other people's experiences and grateful for advice! Thanks!
Click to expand...

Plugging in a flashdrive uses a feature called ReadyBoost to speed up your
system. This extra memory is not RAM and so you don't see any change in
available RAM. Also, ReadyBoost doesn't enhance performance much, but
upgrading from 1 gig to 2 gigs of RAM in Vista made a big difference for me.
 
cleverpie said:
I have a 2 month old Dell with Viv Core 2 Duo Processor 1.86, 32 Bit, 1 GB
Ram, Vista Premium, with aero etc activated, and a fast broadband
connection.
Thanks to the sidebar Ram meter, I saw that when I have 4 or 5 windows
open,
media center playing music, am receiving and sending emails, that the Ram
indicator is in the red, at 80-95%. I was advised by a PC technician that
since I don't play video games, use a camcorder etc it wasn't really
necessary to install more memory. I read about Corsair TurboFlash, it
sounded
a cheap, simple way to increase memory, so I bought a 1GB USB stick. I
plugged it into one of the USB ports (any port is O.K??) the autorun
dialogue
appeared, I clicked 'speed up my system' saw under 'computer' that it was
installed, but I haven't seen any change whatsoever in the Ram meter
usage?
Perhaps it takes a while for the stick to store frquently used programmes?
It
says plug and play - easy upgrade for all vista systems,but there were no
instructions! Is there anything I need to do to check it is compatible?
Do I
have to do anything to configure the USB key? I'd be interested to hear of
other people's experiences and grateful for advice! Thanks!
Click to expand...


A RAM upgrade and also maybe tweak a few startup items would have been a
better move IMHO.
 
Victek said:
Plugging in a flashdrive uses a feature called ReadyBoost to speed up your
system. This extra memory is not RAM and so you don't see any change in
available RAM. Also, ReadyBoost doesn't enhance performance much, but
upgrading from 1 gig to 2 gigs of RAM in Vista made a big difference for me.

Thanks for the quick answer - the info I read on the turboflash was misleading! I will try a few tweaks or may well upgrade to 2 GBs if the system gets too slow. I appreciate your help, many thanks.
Click to expand...
 
Lord Takyon said:
A RAM upgrade and also maybe tweak a few startup items would have been a
better move IMHO.

--
Can't think of a sig at the moment.
Read this instead.

That seems to be the general opinion! The USB key was cheap, so no harm done there.I will tweak more start-up programmes, read all the info and perhaps install mor RAM after all. Thanks for your help!
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top