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  1. November 21st, 2008, 08:03 PM #1
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    Readyboost

    Hi all, I found this option quite by accident when plugging in a thumb drive. So whats up with this? Are there any benifits from it? I found a small write up about it in a Computer mag, but it did not explain much. Thanks
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  2. November 21st, 2008, 08:11 PM #2
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    Google search found a couple of articles explaining this feature. Here are the links:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...eadyboost.aspx
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  3. November 21st, 2008, 08:14 PM #3
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    This should help:

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...eadyboost.aspx

    Never tried it myself.

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    Edit: Beat me to it.
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  4. November 21st, 2008, 09:45 PM #4
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    Got a GB or more of ram? If yes, it is not worth the trouble.
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  6. November 22nd, 2008, 12:57 AM #5
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    Yep. Just in case, I have SD card plugged in, but I see no difference in my 2GB Vista behavior.
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  7. November 22nd, 2008, 11:39 AM #6
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    I tried it out extensively when I first started using Vista, it made no discernible difference when I was running with 2GB of RAM, let alone when I upped to 4GB. If you are running with less that 2GB it may help a bit. Getting more RAM would help a lot more though.
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  8. November 22nd, 2008, 05:55 PM #7
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    Thanks for the replies. I bought a 4 gig OCZ stick to give it a try and as you stated I don't see much difference in Vista performance. I am running 2 gigs of Corsair XMS in my system. I am getting ready to upgrade this system with a new mainboard , CPU and ram.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103272
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145197
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131339

    I have Asus Nforce 4 sli mainboard now with dual gfx cards and a 4400x2 cpu. Are the parts listed above worth the effort. Or would a quad core be better? My system runs pretty sweet now so I am not wanting to waste money. I do some gaming and watch movies ect... Just wondering if the jump to am2 and DDR2 is worth it. Thanks
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  9. November 22nd, 2008, 07:52 PM #8
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    On my 3gb laptop anytime I am doing anything process / memmory intensive and I remember I pop up the task manager and have a look and I have never seen memory usage over 50%.

    The only thing I have not tried yet and where readyboost might have an effect no matter what the original ram would be something like Photoshop / Gimp and having a lot of big (byte size) images open and the redraw rate whenever you pop one forward. i.e. reading an image that has been paged out to readyboot compared with one that has been paged out to HD.
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  11. November 23rd, 2008, 01:39 AM #9
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    Photo shop, just move the cache to a different hdd and make sure to cross the ide.
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