I-Ram for pagefile?

ROfu · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:38

Hey guys has anyone out there used the I-ram for pagefile? I'm upgrading a few machines at work, and will be having a good few spare DDR1 dimms left over.

Obviously the new machines will be running DDR2 so the old ram will be useless. But wouldnt the I-ram be rather usefull for pagefile.. as irrelevant to how much Physical Ram you have installed.. windows always uses pagefile - this would essentially give your pagefile speed a massive boost?

Any Comments or reponses from people who have tried this please post

Cheers
ROfu

Zefan · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:39

Theoretically yes.

I smell a guinaepig!

Craig321 · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:43

Sounds like a good idea - then when you went into pagefile you'd hardly/if not at all notice it.

-Edit

I really wanna do that now

it'd be so cool when you ran a ton of stuff and it didn't slow down at all as it'd have the iRAM for pagefile.

ROfu · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:43

theoretics always sound good to me.. so ive ordered one.. thier only 90bux so if it doenst help.. its not a huge loss.. but could be a massive boost.

Would still love to here from folks who have either tried it .. or know a little about the technology.

Cheers for the response
ROfu

Craig321 · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:44

ROfu said:
theoretics always sound good to me.. so ive ordered one.. thier only 90bux so if it doenst help.. its not a huge loss.. but could be a massive boost.

Would still love to here from folks who have either tried it .. or know a little about the technology.

Cheers for the response
ROfu

I think it will be rather a large boost using it as pagefile. Especially if you go over your RAM limit often

ROfu · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:48

im guessing so, and yes i go way over my ram limit a lot, using windows64 and Maya8-64bit.. been using well over 8gb lately.. meaning 4gb installed.. and 4gb page being used.. its kinda painfull but needed.

Well its all ordered guess ill find out this weekend when i install it
Cheers again for the responses.

Cheers
ROfu

Combat squirrel · 11 Oct 2006 at 23:08

interesting idea this, I may get one and put in the spare 1gb ram i have, I use 1gig as my pagefile already, so hey ill tell ya how it goes

rpstewart · 12 Oct 2006 at 08:28

Just remember that the iRAM does not run and system RAM speed. It's still connected through a SATA port so you'll get 150Mb/s out of it but that's still a good way short of RAM speed.

oxygene · 12 Oct 2006 at 09:29

I think i-ram will gain a big boost in commerce now a lot of people upgrade to DDR2 and have 1 left over. They are trying to release an i-ram2 that uses ddr2 and sata2 etc. I dont see why they dont upgrade the current one, cause I dont think it uses the ddr speeds either, just normal rates.

smids · 12 Oct 2006 at 09:47

rpstewart said:
Just remember that the iRAM does not run and system RAM speed. It's still connected through a SATA port so you'll get 150Mb/s out of it but that's still a good way short of RAM speed.

Lol, yeah - considering RAM (decent PC3200 DDR) can run about 3000Mb/s single channel and 5600Mb/s dual channel - it's slightly slower - but still about 100MB/s faster than using a hard drive and it has no seek times.

Combat squirrel · 12 Oct 2006 at 11:05

oxygene said:
I think i-ram will gain a big boost in commerce now a lot of people upgrade to DDR2 and have 1 left over. They are trying to release an i-ram2 that uses ddr2 and sata2 etc. I dont see why they dont upgrade the current one, cause I dont think it uses the ddr speeds either, just normal rates.

If they use DDR2 on Iram 2 I think that would be a stupid idea, ddr1 is fine for SATA2 ports and people would buy it as they have loads off DDR1 left over ! why are there no people with common sense in the pc industry ? :confused:

mrthingyx · 12 Oct 2006 at 12:34

Combat squirrel said:
If they use DDR2 on Iram 2 I think that would be a stupid idea, ddr1 is fine for SATA2 ports and people would buy it as they have loads off DDR1 left over ! why are there no people with common sense in the pc industry ?

Because DDR DIMMs have comparatively limited capacity? :confused:

z0mbi3 · 12 Oct 2006 at 12:39

Wouldn't it be more cost effective to run the pagefile off a memory stick?

Minstadave · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:17

I'm not sure how much of a boost you'd get, if you have a decent 2GB set of RAM you will very rarely page anyway.

VaderDSL · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:19

Minstadave said:
I'm not sure how much of a boost you'd get, if you have a decent 2GB set of RAM you will very rarely page anyway.

I dunno, the OP states he uses some serious software, and can regularly hit 8Gb of usage. If he could get more of that onto I-Ram is it possible it would improve things a bit more?

Minstadave · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:30

VaderDSL said:
I dunno, the OP states he uses some serious software, and can regularly hit 8Gb of usage. If he could get more of that onto I-Ram is it possible it would improve things a bit more?

I missed that bit

Thats one hell of a lot of RAM usage, the IRam will be better than normal paging, but its still pretty slow due to its SATA interface.

My 7200.10 RAID0 setup can sustain 130MBs per second which is almost what the IRam can manage, obviously the latency on the IRam is a lot lot less.

z0mbi3 · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:48

Still thinking a nice big memory stick is more cost effective.

Combat squirrel · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:52

mrthingyx said:
Because DDR DIMMs have comparatively limited capacity?

No, the biggest DDR and DDR2 modules iv seen easily aviailable are both 1gb, my point is ill have 3gbs ddr ram left over when i go ddr2, so instead of selling the ddr1 at a low low price, may as well jus turn it into a v fast page file

Defcon5 · 12 Oct 2006 at 14:02

z0mbi3 said:
Still thinking a nice big memory stick is more cost effective.

How fast is usb though?

Combat squirrel · 12 Oct 2006 at 14:11

z0mbi3 said:
Still thinking a nice big memory stick is more cost effective.

Not at all, USB memory sticks run at like 65mb/s or something like that, be a lot faster use a normal HD let alone the i-ram (internally i-ram should do 3000mb/s, then down to 150mb/s on the i/o of sata port)