Wow!!! RamDisk Setup & Demo with over 9,000 MB/s Write Performance!

You can just make a RAMDisk, put pagefile on it, then use symbolic link's, regedit, or apps like steam mover to move the caches you require onto the ramdisk. I have pagefile and chrome cache on mine.

I don't think it's possible to use the HDD's actual cache as Ramdisk, that would be impossible I think.

I installed a game onto my RAMDisk, loaded so fast I had to wait ages for everyone else to load it so was pointless, but really cool. :D
 
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Once I get my other 32GB RMA'd, I'll be doing a 32GB partition and run BF3 and other stuff of this... as 64Gb will be sat there doing nothing lol.
 
Well decided to give it a go on my laptop. DDR3 1333mhz, made a 1gb partition:

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This is with using AMD's RAMDisk software: http://www.radeonramdisk.com/

For now I just shoved pagefiling and Window's Readyboost on it. Made my laptop feel a lot more snappier. Boot times obviously is not improved from this :p.
 
Had another play with this the other day, created a 10Gb Ramdisk for a Fallout 3 GOTY edition install, it installed, but it still crashed :(
 
I've got a 16gb ramdrive currently (as I'm waiting for my additional 32gb ram) and it loads pretty quick... not a problem. Got BF3 running nicely on it :-) (backed up obviously lol).
 
Im tempted to buy some 8gb sticks :P

Ran the benchmarking on my current ram (tho i only have a small amount of it atm).

This is what i got in case anyones interested:

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Corsair XMS 2,000mhz on standard set up.
 
PureJaz said:
Im tempted to buy some 8gb sticks :P

Ran the benchmarking on my current ram (tho i only have a small amount of it atm).

This is what i got in case anyones interested:

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Corsair XMS 2,000mhz on standard set up.
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Nice, I'm a little slower as I'm only 1600mhz ram with lose timings... so nice to see the increase with better ram... I seem about 10% lower than your readings... on all tests give or take
 
Natasha Sampson, AMD mentioned RAMDisk read performance, up to 25,600 MB/s with DDR3-1600.

I think the figure quoted by her seems rather high for DDR3 1600, but I might just be wrong.
 
My thoughts on this are basically that it's plain nuts to put the pagefile on a ramdisk.
If you're actually using enough memory to be hitting the pagefile, then you'd be far better off keeping any space as actual RAM- It'll be far more of a CPU and memory bus hit to page out to this ramdisk than it would be to simply leave it as free memory in the first place.

Any effects you can see from just sticking the pagefile on there are placebo at it's worst in 99% of cases.

Cache files have *some* merit, as does Readyboost, but you'll just end up bottlenecking at your CPU.
Same goes for game files TBQH.

Overall, unless you've got more money than sense and a desire for silly numbers in artifical benchmarks, most effects you see from this will be placebo.

-Leezer-
 
Just looking at the superspeed website, its a 15 day trial but doesnt say how much it costs to renew it
 
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