Poppet Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 How beneficial is it? I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 8 Gigabyte Flash Drive to use with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 How beneficial is it? I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 8 Gigabyte Flash Drive to use with it. Depends entirely on what kind of hardware you already have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppet Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 How beneficial is it? I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 8 Gigabyte Flash Drive to use with it. Depends entirely on what kind of hardware you already have. A 4GB RAM and a ATI Radeon HD 4200 Graphics Card. AMD Athlon II X4 630 Processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Wouldn't be any use for you. It only makes a real difference for computers that has 1GB- RAM. That is except if you have an excessive amount of programs open that take a lot or RAM and fills it up until it runs low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 You would probably also need a 64-bit OS (If you don't have one already) to make use of it. Ready boost is sort of a last resort, and for the price of an 8GB USB stick you could probably get one or two GB more of RAM anyway, which would be more effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomster Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Going back to Vista examples (not sure if anyone has repeated similar tests in 7)http://www.anandtech.com/show/2163/6 Readyboost showed anything from nothing to major gains on some operations with 512MB RAM (1GB readyboost) Very marginal gains with 1GB RAM when using readyboost (4GB) With 4GB RAM, readyboost is unlikely to generate any improvment, unless you are actually running deep into pagefile usage from large or many programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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