NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[Thomas]

but the system can store data from programs on it....like RAM
thats agreed right

[Raven322]

No, it's not even hypothetically like adding 2GB of RAM. The ready boost memory (whether turbo memory or flash memory) does not act as system memory.

would doing this benefit game playing

[Thomas]

No i doubt it Raven

[odin243]

would doing this benefit game playing

Nope, ready boost (like hard drive speed) will only affect load times, not the actual 3d performance of the game.

[Les]

We better check into this then.. My reading has shown that the ReadyBoost will take excess files that would have been used in pagefile.sys. So lets say you have 2Gb of ram and, for some reason the system requires 1Gb of pagefile. With ReadyBoost, that pagefile is lessened and the ram taken from the flash drive which of course has a much faster access speed.
I dont believe it will give you a gain in gaming applications however.

As much as Im not a Wikipedia lover, a supporting article is best explained here...

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

[odin243]

but the system can store data from programs on it....like RAM
thats agreed right

The kind of data stored on it is the data usually stored in a page file, which 99.9% of the time resides on your hard drive, so no, not like RAM. If you got an additional 2GB of RAM, you could use it to store your page file, but if you got 2GB of readyboost you couldn't use it for data like you could with the RAM.

We better check into this then.. My reading has shown that the ReadyBoost will take excess files that would have been used in pagefile.sys. So lets say you have 2Gb of ram and, for some reason the system requires 1Gb of pagefile. With ReadyBoost, that pagefile is lessened and the ram taken from the flash drive which of course has a much faster access speed.
I dont believe it will give you a gain in gaming applications however.

As much as Im not a Wikipedia lover, a supporting article is best explained here...

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

ReadyBoost essentially acts like a secondary hard drive cache. And don't believe everything on that wiki article, as it has some definite inaccuracies.

[Les]

My reading is not just Wiki though. Until you, I had never heard anyone state that Readyboost would only affect start times and not the system during operation. In fact, I had never heard that before and wonder about it because, essentially when you shut your system down, the flash ReadyBoost cache is cleared which wouldnt provide for speeding up start time at all.

And I have read many of your posts and enjoyed them, thus I respect your view; just hoping to clarify is all.

This is probably the best explanation and I think I will throw this on the first page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...eadyboost.mspx

[odin243]

My reading is not just Wiki though. Until you, I had never heard anyone state that Readyboost would only affect start times and not the system during operation. In fact, I had never heard that before and wonder about it because, essentially when you shut your system down, the flash ReadyBoost cache is cleared which wouldnt provide for speeding up start time at all.

And I have read many of your posts and enjoyed them, thus I respect your view; just hoping to clarify is all.

This is probably the best explanation and I think I will throw this on the first page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...eadyboost.mspx

Sorry, if I implied that it would only affect start times, that's not what I meant (as it's not true). I meant it would only really affect load times, when you're reading something off the hard drive, not system startup times.

[lkingsvs]

edited 09-15-07

[davron]

One thing I found very helpful: the snipping tool

thanks