vista readyboost

the_box · 9 Feb 2007 at 14:39

does ready boost really work well as some people are stating when installed on a machine running 512mb ram?

Hen_Dawg · 9 Feb 2007 at 14:44

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/02/08/analysis_vista_ready_boost/index.html

DataVampire · 9 Feb 2007 at 14:58

the_box said:
does ready boost really work well as some people are stating when installed on a machine running 512mb ram?

well after using a uncertified and a certified key i purchased of ocuk , i woudl say there is no difernce in that department, does it make a realy difference, i woudl have to say yes and know, it is realy meant for slower perfoming computers, i woudl say in my part, it has made a differnce in webbrowsing, ie if you go to a website it stores the pages you visit to the cache, (i presume) the second time you go back it loads up instantley, apart form that im not cinvinced, the activity lite on the key is flashing away a fiar amount so who realy knows, it will be better when micorosoft finishes off its new fiel system, vista was supposed to have on release, wich they had to take off, as they couldnt iron out the vairous probs, but anyhow i think its due to be introduced via serviepack soemtime.

HEADRAT · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:11

I bought a PEAK 200x readyboost thingy, doesn't seem to make much difference to me but it was only like £20

HEADRAT

iMacMart · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:14

I got a rally 2 2gb pen but didn't think it made much difference tbh .....

Sticks good though...lol

.p.s. DataVampire your sig's a wee bit too large mate....4 lines is the max

just thought I'd let you know......

arcamalpha · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:30

It's certainly makes app loads/closes quicker when the main hard disk is busy (I guess that's when the random access perf of a flash card is better than a hard disk).

For general, one-app-at-a-time work, it makes no difference.

That's on a:
P4 2.4B
512MB Rambus ram
IDE hard disks etc

DataVampire · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:54

tweakinfreak said:
I got a rally 2 2gb pen but didn't think it made much difference tbh .....

Sticks good though...lol

.p.s. DataVampire your sig's a wee bit too large mate....4 lines is the max just thought I'd let you know......

lol gonna have to redo it, damn txt sigs are harder to do than pic ones. thx for the heads up

btw how did you get your txt so small, ive tried mine on the size 1 ?
sorry to highjack the thread, when im editing my sig in the preview it is showing perfectly on 3 lines, i have no idea what is going wrong

z0mbi3 · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:58

DataVampire said:
lol gonna have to redo it, damn txt sigs are harder to do than pic ones. thx for the heads up

btw how did you get your txt so small, ive tried mine on the sixe 1 ?

4 lines or you'll incur admin wrath.

On topic:

So does having the ready boost service on warrant the benefits? I have it turned off atm.

DataVampire · 9 Feb 2007 at 16:00

z0mbi3 said:
4 lines or you'll incur admin wrath.

On topic:

So does having the ready boost service on warrant the benefits? I have it turned off atm.

if you got it yes it does help i woudl say in webbrowsing, for example for sites you visit ll the time..

iMacMart · 9 Feb 2007 at 16:13

Mine is on 1 too try cutting out the spaces etc that should help?

Or copy paste mine into yours and see how it looks then work back from there..?

z0mbi3 · 9 Feb 2007 at 16:18

Well I've got a spair SD card that readyboost seems to want me to use as a readyboost device. I don't know if I can be bothered though to be fair. Will have to think on it.

arcamalpha · 11 Feb 2007 at 07:58

Has anyone tried running their paging file from a flash disk?

Worth it? Not sure if paging file performance is based on access time or transfer rates...

dbilsborough · 11 Feb 2007 at 11:04

with 2gb ram and then 4gb ram my rig seems slower with my memory key in. It is a pretty slow key though, and I suspect Vista uses fast system RAM to cache if it is available