February 1, 201016 yr Got a spare 8GB USB stick, I was going to try the boost feature on Win7 64-bit. Worth my time or no? John Binner, MCDST U.S. Dept Of Veteran Affairs, Senior IT Analyst OI&T, SPM, Clinical Imaging 2022 Build: Thermaltake Core X71 Full tower case, ASUS Prime X570-P Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core CPU, ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX6900 XT GPU, G.SKILL Ripjaws 32GB DDR 3600 RAM, Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850W 80+ Gold PSU, Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L Water Cooler
March 1, 201016 yr I have NO clue whatsoever, and I "I´ll rather be down here wishing I was up there than be up there wishing I was down here"
March 4, 201016 yr I have used a 8 Gig USB thumb drive in memory boast mode (4096) and found it smooth out the video just enough that I didn't have to reduce the Autogen slider on notch to accomplish the same results on my system.System is:AMD Phenom II X4 BE running at stock 3.0 GHzATI HD 4650 512 ram Video card4 Gigs of ddr2 Dual Channel 800 MHz dram19 Inch Wide Screen Flat Panel Moinitor (1440X900) DisplayGigabyte MB with AMD chip setI did not see an increase in FPS but a smoother video in DX 10 mode.Hope this is a help.Happy Flying - Ken
March 6, 201016 yr I had a spare 1GB flash drive and I used it for this purpose but I was wondering if I used one of my 4GB flash drives for that if it would make a performance difference. Basically, is there a limit to the size of the flash memory you make available for this feature at at what point are you wasting the available flash memory?
March 10, 201016 yr The more RAM you have in your system, the less impact ReadyBoost may have - as SuperFetch (caching hard drive items to RAM) is superior to ReadyBoost (caching hard drive items to the USB2 memorystick).If you have a moderate to low amount of RAM (<2GB) and a fast enough USB stick, I'd say give it a whirl! Note that the improvements may not be instant... the system may need to learn which files you often read, so it can cache the files for future use. Note that if you happen to have a SSD hard drive, ReadyBoost will likely bring you no improvements whatsoever - The SSD drive makes random reads on the hard drive an instant affair, unlike a traditional drive which needs to seek out the items. For more information, read the ReadyBoost wiki entry...-Greg
March 28, 201016 yr I had a spare 1GB flash drive and I used it for this purpose but I was wondering if I used one of my 4GB flash drives for that if it would make a performance difference. Basically, is there a limit to the size of the flash memory you make available for this feature at at what point are you wasting the available flash memory?ReadyBoost does have a limt of 4 GB.
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