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I have a laptop with Vista, 2 GB RAM. Should I expect a performance

boost if I use ReadyBoost? I have a built-in memory card slot that I

never use, and I wonder if I should buy a ReadyBoost-capable card, stick

it in there and use it to boost my computer. I use Home Premium and 2

GB was recommended, but will 2 or 4 GB available for ReadyBoost help me?


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you wont see almost any difference, you can get another 2 gigs ram, although

your system if its 32 bit will only use 3.1 - 3.5 of that





"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net>wrote in message



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"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net>wrote:



In my experience, adding ReadyBoost to a 2GB RAM machine makes little to no

difference. I believe ReadyBoost was made for computers pushed to their

limits by Vista, ie. computers with 512MB or 1GB RAM and a slow,

traditional, single core processor.



Unless you frequently run particularly resource hogging software, I doubt

you will benefit from ReadyBoost. Anyway, if you intend to use a memory card

for ReadyBoost only, why not just add more RAM? It is relatively

inexpensive.



Charlie42



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You are not going to see any improvement using Ready Boost. Ready boost is

fine for machines hat have between 512MB and 1GB of memory (that is what it

was designed for). If you have 2GB or more any improvement would be so

slight that it would not be noticeable.



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"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net>wrote in message

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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:57:38 GMT, Ernie Lane <ErnieLane@verizon.net>

wrote:





In my experience, no. ReadyBoost helps only on computers with less

than 2GB of RAM. And since my recommendation is that any Vista

computer with less than 2GB should be upgraded to at least 2GB, I

think ReadyBoost is essentially useless.



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Had the same thought once. Not all memory card readers are USB2 so

Readyboost might not be available on the reader. See about testing it before

spending money on a high speed memory card.



"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net>wrote in message

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Ernie Lane;675544 Wrote:

Not to take anything away from the previous posters, but I'v

experienced something different with readyboost



My boot up time has been cut in 1/2 and my shut down time is also a

least 33% faster. Some applications are appearing to open and ru

faster.



My system has 1 X 4 GB DDR2 800 installed with a 4 GB readyboot US

drive



I've seen a measurable improvement by using readyboost. My .0



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".Joe" <Joe.37j4t0@no-mx.forums.net>wrote in message

That's incredibly unlikely with 4GB of RAM. RAM is much faster than flash

memory, and with 4GB, there is always going to be a lot for caching, unless

you have a few large applications and files open. I think your perceived

speed increases might be due to SuperFetch tuning up or maybe ongoing

defragmentation.



ss.





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It may also be due to the installation of SP1. I can't say I've noticed any

increase in speed when starting up or shutting down the machine but

independent benchmark tests suggest that there is a 5 second gain on tart up

and 2 second gain on shutdown (source: Windows Vista The Official Magazine

(Future Publishing) issue 16: Page 41



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