RAMDISK benefits on a gaming system?

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I just upgraded my gaming system to 32GB of RAM. While I know that is way overkill, it was cheap, so I did it anyway. I know the 32GB wont give me any gaming benefits over my original 16GB, so I was thinking about maybe implementing a RAMDISK and using that to speed up games, but not sure if it would or how to do that. Thoughts?
 
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Well...if you think it beneficial, try it.
Document the results, before and after.

I have my doubts that it would actually 'help' anything, but I welcome you to prove me wrong.

Please...document the results and post the graph here.
Additionally, I would love to see a before and after of your RAID 10 performance.
Not 'benchmarks'...actual performance.
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Don't bother.

Not gaming, but...
I had a smallish RAMDisk set up specifically for Lightroom cache. I saw zero performance benefit over having that on an SSD.
So I undid it.

You could try it though.
What aspect of the gaming experience are you looking to improve? FPS? Nope.
Level load time? Just as easily done with an SSD.
 
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Whilst it may reduce load times, you've still got to get the data from the HDD/SSD into RAM, so all you're doing is speeding up subsequent accesses (which, given sufficient RAM, should be cached by the OS anyway). That's before considering that optimally accessing memory is different to accessing disk ...
 
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I already have a 500GB SSD (4x250GB RAID-10) as my main system drive, so the RAMdrive would not only speed things up a bit, hopefully, but also reduce the read/writes to those SSD's thus increasing their longevity.
 
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Well...if you think it beneficial, try it.
Document the results, before and after.

I have my doubts that it would actually 'help' anything, but I welcome you to prove me wrong.

Please...document the results and post the graph here.
Additionally, I would love to see a before and after of your RAID 10 performance.
Not 'benchmarks'...actual performance.
 
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