- Oct 26, 2011
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Old 1TB HDD crashed,
had a 32GB MSATA SSD so installed Win 7 Ultimate on it.
System specs:
I7-3770, 8GB 1.6GHz RAM. Dell Vostro 470.
System runs really great now but uses much less RAM then when I used an HDD.
Went from a Windows experience index of 5.9 to 6.9 for total system and 5.9 to 7.9 for the Primary Hard disc score itself.
Old setup left about 2.5-3GB of RAM "Free" most of the time and used the rest of the 8GB.
With the SSD I usually have about 5.8GB of RAM "Free", even opening 75-100 Chrome tabs does not push it much further and never shows less then 4-5GB of RAM as "Free".
I cloned the SSD to the HDD after reformatting and can boot from it easily to switch back and forth for testing.
Sure enough on the HDD with nothing running I have only 2.5GB of RAM "Free".
On the SSD with nothing running I have about 5.8GB of my 8GB of RAM "Free".
Paging file is 4GB min and 5GB max and located on the respective drives the OS sits on.
Its like the paging file on the SSD is so large and so fast my system only needs about 3.5GB of RAM total?
So its seems excessive to have 8GB and I was hoping there was a way to just use some more of it.
Its an odd request I know, most people have the opposite problem, but I paid $85 for 2x 4GB sticks of RAM and am not even using 1 of them fully, lol.
If I cant make the system use the RAM should I take it out or convert to a RAM drive or what?
Just to be clear if it says "Free" in resource manager that means its not being used at all, right?
Is this a common situation when moving to a SSD?
I would not have spent $85 on the new RAM if the SSD alone makes it redundant, which is a big "IF" I was hoping some of you could explain to me.
Cheers!
had a 32GB MSATA SSD so installed Win 7 Ultimate on it.
System specs:
I7-3770, 8GB 1.6GHz RAM. Dell Vostro 470.
System runs really great now but uses much less RAM then when I used an HDD.
Went from a Windows experience index of 5.9 to 6.9 for total system and 5.9 to 7.9 for the Primary Hard disc score itself.
Old setup left about 2.5-3GB of RAM "Free" most of the time and used the rest of the 8GB.
With the SSD I usually have about 5.8GB of RAM "Free", even opening 75-100 Chrome tabs does not push it much further and never shows less then 4-5GB of RAM as "Free".
I cloned the SSD to the HDD after reformatting and can boot from it easily to switch back and forth for testing.
Sure enough on the HDD with nothing running I have only 2.5GB of RAM "Free".
On the SSD with nothing running I have about 5.8GB of my 8GB of RAM "Free".
Paging file is 4GB min and 5GB max and located on the respective drives the OS sits on.
Its like the paging file on the SSD is so large and so fast my system only needs about 3.5GB of RAM total?
So its seems excessive to have 8GB and I was hoping there was a way to just use some more of it.
Its an odd request I know, most people have the opposite problem, but I paid $85 for 2x 4GB sticks of RAM and am not even using 1 of them fully, lol.
If I cant make the system use the RAM should I take it out or convert to a RAM drive or what?
Just to be clear if it says "Free" in resource manager that means its not being used at all, right?
Is this a common situation when moving to a SSD?
I would not have spent $85 on the new RAM if the SSD alone makes it redundant, which is a big "IF" I was hoping some of you could explain to me.
Cheers!
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