look what i got in the post today

just an update:

some of the ram is faulty, I have no way of testing though, tried to use scan disk but I really need to use mem test and test the memory that way. So the project is on hold until I can get to my Dad's shuttle which I believe has a DDR1 motherboard in it. Will report back in July probably :(
 
they're aimed at different users, Supercache is software so it has no battery backup ... so using it for O/S is obviously out....something most users who buy the iRAM would do i would think.
 
The PC will/should have a UPS

which means you will only have data corruption in the event of application crash, driver error or BSOD

and this problem applies equally to hard disk, iRAM or SuperCache

furthermore worrying about write caching for the OS is unnecessary
windows system files are 99.9% read only static files the only time
they are changed is during updates

where SuperCache wins out over iRAM
- 5 times faster
- accelerates whatever you are working on at the time
- can seem like a 100GB iRAM!
- you still have the RAM available to OS if you so choose just click
- no cheapo dodgy hardware to install
- no capacity limitations

in reality SuperCache accelerates everything you do
whereas iRAM only accelerates things you can store on it

There is a free trial and I am sure your face will light up when your hard disk benchmarks
over 1000MB/sec :-)
 
No I don't work for them

Hard disks are the main bottleneck in a typical PC
(besides dumbo microsoft networking code)

I am surprised there is so little discussion of how to speed up disk access on these forums - that is my #1 concern when building a PC

SuperCache can speed up disk bound applications by 25 times
for only $150 that has to be the best performance upgrade in existence!

I don't know how SuperFetch works but I just read some borg blurb and it is not a software block cache.

How much of your 4GB RAM do you ever use ?
 
Well I'm giving up with the I-Ram. I've decided to go with Server 2008 as my OS of choice. Minimum install is 16GB so it looks like they are going on the bay soon. Just a shame that the I-RAM alternative is so expensive (£1600) however it is DDR2 based.
 
Why not set up the I-Ram as the windows swapfile. It doesnt matter how much ram you have, many applications will still request swap space and use it. By having 4gb of ram on an I-ram and allow the entire drive to be used as swap you can get a pretty good performance boost. Especially if your running a 32bit os. With a 64bit OS of course you can just slap in more ram.
 
FireShadow said:
The PC will/should have a UPS

which means you will only have data corruption in the event of application crash, driver error or BSOD

and this problem applies equally to hard disk, iRAM or SuperCache
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You have a touching faith in UPSs. I've seen a faulty UPS take out a server and bring down the library system for half a county.
 
Corasik said:
Why not set up the I-Ram as the windows swapfile. It doesnt matter how much ram you have, many applications will still request swap space and use it. By having 4gb of ram on an I-ram and allow the entire drive to be used as swap you can get a pretty good performance boost. Especially if your running a 32bit os. With a 64bit OS of course you can just slap in more ram.
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Pagefile and Photoshop (or whatever) temp file would work well.

There's still a limit on how much RAM you can use with 64-bit OSs as most mobos are limited to 8GB and you still can't use it as paging space.
 
Corasik said:
Why not set up the I-Ram as the windows swapfile. It doesnt matter how much ram you have, many applications will still request swap space and use it. By having 4gb of ram on an I-ram and allow the entire drive to be used as swap you can get a pretty good performance boost. Especially if your running a 32bit os. With a 64bit OS of course you can just slap in more ram.
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Might just try this. Seems a bit of a price to pay just for fast access to swap thoguht. I have 8GBs in my system so superfetch should use this to its benifet..
 
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