Readyboost Question

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At the moment ive got 1.5gb installed in my system (x3 512mb 3200 DDR)
running with Vista Ultimate, and ive just ordered a 1GB kingston USB memory
stick that is combatable with Vista Readyboost.

Now my question is this, how much differance will this extra 1gb via
readyboost help my system?
Ive also got a 256mb Stick which works but not that well.

Any assistance on this matter would be helpfull

regards
 
You'll see a small improvement.

Please be aware that ReadyBoost Compatible is a lot different than Certified
for ReadyBoost. I have one of the later and it is 2-3 times as fast as some
of my "compatible" (just means it works) sticks.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
Readyboost is essentially a fast cache, being as a flash drive is faster
than a regular hard drive.. if you want performance, increase the physical
RAM..


mr_hadley said:
At the moment ive got 1.5gb installed in my system (x3 512mb 3200 DDR)
running with Vista Ultimate, and ive just ordered a 1GB kingston USB
memory
stick that is combatable with Vista Readyboost.

Now my question is this, how much differance will this extra 1gb via
readyboost help my system?
Ive also got a 256mb Stick which works but not that well.

Any assistance on this matter would be helpfull

regards
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
You may notice some measurable quickness. If you have a stop watch. Most
computers run memory faster if installed in pairs. The alternate reading
from the two chips. I have 2 gig memory. 1 gig for use now (any more is a
waste) and a second 1 gig chip in case when the future requires it they are
no longer easily available and to run the memory at full speed.
 
Readyboost has a more measureable effect on systems with the minimum 512mb
RAM installed.. anything over 1gb and the gains will be harder to detect..

Re your spare 1gb, you may as well install it if you have it in your
possession..


You may notice some measurable quickness. If you have a stop watch. Most
computers run memory faster if installed in pairs. The alternate reading
from the two chips. I have 2 gig memory. 1 gig for use now (any more is a
waste) and a second 1 gig chip in case when the future requires it they
are no longer easily available and to run the memory at full speed.
Click to expand...

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
I have it installed. It would get destroyed by the time a good time came if
it wasn't. A while it's overkill for capacity I have installed for the
interleaving. Think it may make the odd memory access a picosecond or two
quicker.

But 2 GB is not needed except to make superfetch really annoy me with disk
chatter because I wait for it to finish before I use the computer.

I've been up for two and a half days (the safety switch blew the other
morning) and have a disk cache of 1.3 GB. I have 1.2 GB of swap file being
used. I'd imagine that is speculatively paged out stuff, and unused stuff,
and if measuring the same as previous versions - the code segments from
open executables.

But I've been starting and exiting from total war game (it hangs on the
second next New Game command if focus has switched to another app. Go figure
the "second next" part. Anywar I exit then restart the game. And the USB
drive goes spastic for a while (my USB stick has a flashing access LED) on
exit and startup. I'm not at all sure it makes thing quicker though it did
shave 100s of msec off some driver initialisations during startup. One day
I'll pull it out.

My 2.4 GHZ dual core is the slowest (according to the WEI) part of my
system. 5.9 for both graphics (with free blue screen and user mode crashes)
and hard drive, 5.4 memory, and 5.3 processor.

In my experiences with older windows with far smaller caches a fast hard
drive is the most efficient thing that can make a difference. The reason is
latency. Hard drives impose latency on nearly everything whereas adaquate
memory only sometimes impose latency. Plus a fast hard drive speeds up
virtual memory anyway. I bought a 10,000 RPM hard drive.
 
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