windows vista speed up ?

gen.Rage1991hrv · December 16th, 2007, 08:32 PM

every time i write in google windows vista speed up i get this shit:

Quote:

If you've got a spare USB drive laying around, hold onto it till you start running Windows Vista. Using Vista's new ReadyBoost feature, a spare USB 2.0 key with enough space can speed up the OS performance.
Plug in your drive and choose "Speed up my system" from the AutoPlay menu to enable ReadyBoost, which uses some fancy-pants disk-caching to make Windows a bit snappier.

ok guys can anyone tell me how much of performance boost do we get
and how much do usb stick have to be big to gain some extra power/speed
they all say it will get it but how much ??
is this option really working or it just some stupid shit that ms made again ??

zme-ul · December 16th, 2007, 08:56 PM

almost none 0.00001% increase ... maybe
buy more RAM instead

gen.Rage1991hrv · December 16th, 2007, 08:58 PM

i was thinking about that but i dont have any slow down on my ddr and max usage of ddr was 80% so no need
but i have on mbo and cpu (will change mbo)

**Chaos** · December 16th, 2007, 09:12 PM

as far as I know it just uses the USB as virtual memory like additional page file space

gen.Rage1991hrv · December 16th, 2007, 09:14 PM

hmmm as i know usb stick read and write is slower than a hdds read&write
funny

Unixlord · December 16th, 2007, 09:16 PM

Several sites have tested this feature and have all concluded that it's useless. (I haven't kept the links sorry)

Zamoldac · December 16th, 2007, 10:27 PM

i tried it with a 2gb stick and i must say that no performance increase whatsoever. So i ended up using 4 gb of ram and the x64 ultimate edition.

SpectatorX · December 17th, 2007, 12:08 AM

It's bullshit.

USB, even 2.0 is much slower then hdd. If i meant u good this option uses usb stick as some kind of swap memory.

Let's do a little review:

Windows, all of them uses swap made as "swap file" saved at system partition... It is one of dumbest ideas used in this oses. Theoretically and in practice it slows, not makes system faster.

Linux is usin as swap seperate partition at hdd, it is much faster then ms's magic swap file.

Maybe ms thought that move swap not only to other partition, but just to other device will boost system?!

If yes, so.... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!! MS sux.....

And for end of my speech little statistics, speed statistics:

HDD ATA 133 (most popular):
whole max speed: 133MB/s
internal max speed: 757MB/s

SataII:
whole max speed: 300MB/s

USB 2.0:
max speed: 480Mb/s=60MB/s

Do MS wanna make ppl more dumb then this corporation is?!?!

Mac Daddy · December 17th, 2007, 12:37 AM

It is a load of crap

SpectatorX I never run my Windows swap file on my primary drive or partition Bro

pmacd · January 6th, 2008, 02:39 PM

Readyboot is only going to show a performance boost if you have 512-1gig of ram. It is true that a hard disk can read and write faster than a flash drive, but random read-write is 80 to 100 times faster on a flash drive. I tried it on my current pc (q6600,4gig ram, 256 video) no difference. But on my lenovo laptop (half a gig of ram, integrated intel graphics) with a hugh perfomace increase. SO basically it comes down to low ram and bad or integrated graphics. So maybe even if you only had a half gig of ram but decent gpu, it would be pointless or minimal because the gpu would take the graphics load of your cpu. Hope that makes sense guys. It is not used as a pagefile becase it is not fast enough, just random read writes. Little quickies i guess you could call it,lol.