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Schrovan_Rip   02-10-2007 at 09:33:42 PM

Hello! As you can see I am new here and I just wanted to ask a question.

Will Superfetch make working with two programs, at the same time easier, if you have four gigs of ram? For instance gaming and a render program or just any two or more intensive programs at once.

Also will having four gigs of ram make Vista 64 bit, load any programs faster than two gigs?

I did a search on google and here on tom's and I didn't find anything conclusive.

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darious00777   02-10-2007 at 11:39:07 PM
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Hello! As you can see I am new here and I just wanted to ask a question.

Will Superfetch make working with two programs, at the same time easier, if you have four gigs of ram? For instance gaming and a render program or just any two or more intensive programs at once.

Also will having four gigs of ram make Vista 64 bit, load any programs faster than two gigs?

I did a search on google and here on tom's and I didn't find anything conclusive.

Nice meeting eveyone!



I would think that the RAM and hard drive speed would determine things more then an amount of RAM over 2 gigabytes, unless they're really large programs. According to Tom's there was a slight increase in loading time from 1 gig going to 2 gigs, which was a little odd. I would think though that at 4 gigs you should have more then enough space to launch most applications within a five seconds seconds, down from tens of seconds otherwise.

This is all speculation from me. Just a disclaimer.

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wolfman140   02-11-2007 at 05:07:18 PM
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Yes, the more RAM you have, the better apps will run at the same time. Superfetch is mainly just a feature to decrease loading time. I don't believe it effects computer performance WHILE the program is actually running. It just pre-loads app launch info so when you're ready to load it just pops from there instead of the HDD.
I don't know if 4 gigs will show THAT much loading time improvement, but it will definitley increase performance when running multiple apps. Again, superfetch doesn't increase performance really...just load times.

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dasickninja   02-11-2007 at 11:40:15 PM
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While we're at it, welcome to the Forumz.

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