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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

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


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

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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

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http://www.anandtech.com/systems/s [...] i=2917&p=5

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] 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


Message edited by notherdude on 02-24-2008 at 11:44:04 PM

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notherdude u have an old hand. Having an old hand doesnt make sence. Cuz its old. get a new one.. seems like ur hand doesnt understand what it is writing. So placve it in ur rig instead of vista human orgnoids will amke more sense
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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.


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