Vista's Ready Drive

[amdwilliam1985]

Hi all, this thread should probably go to the ram section, but I feel I'll get more responses here, as I never visit anything section other than cpu and video card.
I apologize in advance. Anyway, back to my point.
I wonder if Vista's Ready Drive is helpful at all, especially when I have a low amount of rams(1gb).

My main specs:
opteron 165 @ 2.6ghz
2x512mb ultra ram
HD3850 512mb
250gb Hitachi drive

 

[ZOldDude]

I doubt anything Vista offers is worth suffering the DRM crap in it.

 

[inglburt]

You mean the Ready boost? It's supposed to work better on computers with less memory, yes.

 

[amdwilliam1985]

yes, I mean Ready Boost, sorry.

Are there reviews on Ready Boost with machines that have different memory sizes.

Since DDR ram prices are skyrocketing, maybe it's a better idea to use flash thumb drives with Ready Boost.
1gb ddr ram = ~$50
4gb flash drive = ~$15

 

[notherdude]

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=5

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed/page5.html

Above are nice studies by Toms and Anand. Short story: if you have 512 meg RAM ready boost is very nice, 1 meg RAM and above, not so much.

GET THE EXTRA RAM - READY BOOST WILL NOT COMPENSATE FOR ITS LACK - 2 GIG IS SWEET SPOT FOR VISTA - AND MORE IS EVEN BETTER


but if you must stay with 1 gig readyboost might be better than nothing - depending on specific apps and use patterns

 

[amdwilliam1985]

Thank you.
I guess I'll get myself 2x1gb of used ram from Ebay.
I just didn't feel right throwing any more money into this "dead" system.