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Hiya all,
I didnt know where to put this thread so here you go! Im guessing this is the right forum!
I had a couple of cheap pen drives sitting around. I benched them in Sisoft Sandra and sure enough they are poor on the performance side.
However I tried to use them as readyboost following the advice that you could edit the registry in Vista and so on as per the link below.
http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com...ny-usb-stick-to-readyboost-your-computer.html
Well, this didnt work.
I found something that did eventually work, and despite my pen drive being 16 times slower than the best you can get I DID SEE AN IMPROVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE! So its probably worth giving it a go
Simply format you pen drive as NTFS and then enable compression!
Yeah! Its Readyboosted.
Shame Im still not happy with Vista but Ive gone DirectX10 on the graphics card now so Ill have to stick with it.
Shame
Anyhow, Im guessing that with fast hard drives, 2 gigs of fast pen drive (readyboost), Vista will "learn" and "superfetch" your most popular programs to the pen drives leaving your main memory free to do what it was designed to (run games?).
I see now - All becomes clear. So we dont need 4 gig of ram after all.....
Comments???
G
I didnt know where to put this thread so here you go! Im guessing this is the right forum!
I had a couple of cheap pen drives sitting around. I benched them in Sisoft Sandra and sure enough they are poor on the performance side.
However I tried to use them as readyboost following the advice that you could edit the registry in Vista and so on as per the link below.
http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com...ny-usb-stick-to-readyboost-your-computer.html
Well, this didnt work.
I found something that did eventually work, and despite my pen drive being 16 times slower than the best you can get I DID SEE AN IMPROVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE! So its probably worth giving it a go
Simply format you pen drive as NTFS and then enable compression!
Yeah! Its Readyboosted.
Shame Im still not happy with Vista but Ive gone DirectX10 on the graphics card now so Ill have to stick with it.
Shame
Anyhow, Im guessing that with fast hard drives, 2 gigs of fast pen drive (readyboost), Vista will "learn" and "superfetch" your most popular programs to the pen drives leaving your main memory free to do what it was designed to (run games?).
I see now - All becomes clear. So we dont need 4 gig of ram after all.....
Comments???
G
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