Laptop performance vs memory timing

[willym]

I have a I3 core laptop with 8Gbyte memory and CL=9 timing. IF a memory upgrade were available with a lower clock latency number - would this improve performance?

 

[vilenjan]

I have a I3 core laptop with 8Gbyte memory and CL=9 timing. IF a memory upgrade were available with a lower clock latency number - would this improve performance?

Not really. You would see a improvement in synthetic benchmarks that test for specific parameters of course, but realistically you would not.

 

[willym]

Not really. You would see a improvement in synthetic benchmarks that test for specific parameters of course, but realistically you would not.

Thx, as I suspected. But I did see a small change when upgraded from 4Gbyte ram to 8Gbyte ram (again, small pecentage, performance index), noticeable when running FSX.

 

[vilenjan]

More ram = less time spent accessing the swap file on the HD.

 

[jayjr1105]

Can you have enough ram so that you are literally "never" accessing the page file? It seems 4gb is still overkill for 90% of things but now everyone is jumping on 8 because of the price drop.

 

[vilenjan]

No, windows is designed to work wight a swap file, so even if you have 24GB of ram and disable the swap file, some applications will not work. Its a legacy thing, and maybe win8 will fix this.

If you do have enough ram, most programs will spend very little time in the swap file, so you can minimize the usage, but not make it go away completely (unless you disable it of course).

 

[simon12]

There was an article on Toms about setting up a RAM drive on your RAM and putting the swap file on it.