Idjit BoB said:
Thanks everyone for your thoughts. Being new to the group, I didn't
realize that I didn't have all the headers downloaded. Once I finally got
that accomplished, I found tons of stuff on Readyboost.
I find that opinions are quite varied, and at least my question wasn't
already covered.
When I feel energetic, I will max out my Sony notebook RAM.
Going OT...
In anticipation of this endeavor, the Sony manual says that I need to
remove the battery. Of course they didn't mention the pitfalls of doing
so. Except for static discharge, does anyone have any advice or horror
stories to prep me for this task?
Thanks again.
What's the maximum ram of your notebook? If you are running the 32.bit
version of Vista, in most cases, that version can't handle 4GB of ram as it
cannot address 4GB. Some chipsets and BIOS configurations allow for memory
mapping:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/ and can sometimes overcome this
issue. However, if your system doesn't have this feature, you'd have to
check the system BIOS and be sure you have the appropriate chipset, the
system won't see and properly use much more than 3GB and if your graphics
card has onboard memory, the amount the system sees and addresses might be
less based on that additional memory.
If your system is compatible with and can run memory in dual channel mode,
since that memory must be installed in pairs, you might be better off
matching your current memory with an additional 1GB of RAM assuming the gig
you currently have is dual channel capable. Under those conditions, you
could have 2GIGs of system ram running in dual channel mode and a graphics
card with its own 512MB of graphics memory and the system will see and be
able to use it all. In fact, if necessary, you could probably run two SLI
cards with 512MB each if your system is SLI compatible. Given SLI is
generally used for gaming rigs, it should handle most of your needs.