ReadyBoost question...

[Scott K. Brumbaugh]

I'm running Vista Home Premium on a Dual-Core Mobile Processor T2060
(1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache) machine with 2GB DDR2 memory, ATI
Radeon® Xpress 200M Integrated Graphics (64MB dedicated / 735MB shared), and
a 100GB PATA hard drive (4200 RPM). Could I configure a 2GB SD card to be
used as ReadyBoost and would I see any performance gains?

 

[Richard Urban]

It depends on what applications you regularly run. And, don't come back and
list them here. The thing to do is to try it and see it *YOU* perceive a
benefit. Others will say both yes and no. I say no.


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[Paul Smith]

I'm running Vista Home Premium on a Dual-Core Mobile Processor T2060
(1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache) machine with 2GB DDR2 memory, ATI
Radeon® Xpress 200M Integrated Graphics (64MB dedicated / 735MB shared),
and a 100GB PATA hard drive (4200 RPM).

Could I configure a 2GB SD card to be used as ReadyBoost and would I see
any performance gains?

Assuming the card is fast enough to support ReadyBoost it would work,
however to be honest I only can tell the difference if I've got say 1GB
assigned to a virtual machine. I can't tell any difference with normal
usage, that's with 2GB of RAM too.

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[Scott K. Brumbaugh]

I was hoping that someone had a little experience with ReadyBoost on a
machine like mine and/or with a SD card, since I would need to buy the card
to try it. I'm trying to push the machine into doing some gaming.

 

[Richard Urban]

With 2 gig of RAM, it is all in the individuals perception. I say no. YOU
may well think you see a speed increase.

As I said, you have to try it to see.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Dustin Harper]

I would say no. You have 2 GB of RAM, and depending on what kind of work you
do, you probably wouldn't see much, if any, improvement. However, if you
work with video editing, Photoshop, or programming, you might see an
improvement. I have a laptop with 1.5 GB of RAM (it was upgraded from 512)
that I just put in a 1 GB SD card, and I'm not seeing much of an
improvement. I actually think I want to see it go faster, so it's all
psychological.

ReadyBoost is aimed at people with 1 GB or less of RAM.

Hope this helps.

 

[John Barnes]

You would be better off to add additional memory if gaming is the interest.
I agree with Richard.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Richard, I'm glad someone agrees with me that ReadyBoost has little benefit
especially with Memory of 2GB. My own machine has 1.5GB RAM and, for the
life of me, I cannot see any improvement in performance yet, in another post
where i post that ReadyBoost wouldn't give the user any increase in
performance unless, maybe, he only had 512MB of RAM, I got a reply telling
me that one poster had 4GB RAM and that he 'could' see an improvment using
ReadyBoost - although why he would want to use readyboost with 4GB RAM I
haven't a clue.

My personal opinion is that, as it stands, ReadyBoost is far to
temperamental. I certainly don't use it now, because there is no tangible
evidence, on my machine, that it improves anything.

 

[Scott K. Brumbaugh]

Thanks. I'm going to say the heck with it for now.

 

[Scott K. Brumbaugh]

I appreciate your reply. I've decided to forget it.

 

[Scott K. Brumbaugh]

It doesn't sound like it would be worth it on my machine. Thanks for the
replies.

 

[...winston]

John, I agree too..I've 2GB on this machine..Defrag once a month has a
higher performance perk than using a Sandisk or Memorex s capable usb boost
drive.

I don't use Vista's defrag preferring drive selectability from the stand
alone Power Defragment GUI which uses Russinovich's SysInternal Contig.exe
or the defrag via the command prompt.
..winston