Free RAM?!?

[Skyve]

Hey,

Felt like sharing this...a way to get free RAM ,gonna try when Im back from school (In comments someone got 32G of RAM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcqqwhgrUk

Has anyone tried this before?Does it sacrifice performance or something?

[Azilius]

All he's doing is increasing the page file size. Iirc this is just using HDD space as virtual ram which is a lot slower than "normal ram".

[BlackFox898]

there's people that didn't know about that? not like it makes a big difference anyways.

[user]

if you have vista, you can try powerboost, or something like that.

instead of use your hd as virtual ram, you use a memory stick, which is a lot faster than hd

[zShared]

if you have vista, you can try powerboost, or something like that.

instead of use your hd as virtual ram, you use a memory stick, which is a lot faster than hd

Wtf?
If by memory stick you mean.. a stick of ram, RAM is physical memory.

Windows XP automatically uses virtual RAM when all your physical ram is used up. It runs a hell of a lot slower because your harddrive doesn't work nearly as well as a stick of ram does.
Rule of thumb is to usually set the pagefile to 2.5x (Or is it 1.5x?) of your total physical ram.
If you think you're going to run 264326246 applications on "32 GB virtual memory" and have everything work chipper, you'll be sadly mistaken.

[Azilius]

if you have vista, you can try powerboost, or something like that.

instead of use your hd as virtual ram, you use a memory stick, which is a lot faster than hd

Wtf?
If by memory stick you mean.. a stick of ram, RAM is physical memory.

Windows XP automatically uses virtual RAM when all your physical ram is used up. It runs a hell of a lot slower because your harddrive doesn't work nearly as well as a stick of ram does.
Rule of thumb is to usually set the pagefile to 2.5x (Or is it 1.5x?) of your total physical ram.
If you think you're going to run 264326246 applications on "32 GB virtual memory" and have everything work chipper, you'll be sadly mistaken.

He means a flash drive. Vista has readyboost (or something along those lines..) that uses the drive as virtual ram which is somewhat faster than your HDD.

[user]

if you have vista, you can try powerboost, or something like that.

instead of use your hd as virtual ram, you use a memory stick, which is a lot faster than hd

Wtf?

welcome to the 21 century grandpa

[zShared]

if you have vista, you can try powerboost, or something like that.

instead of use your hd as virtual ram, you use a memory stick, which is a lot faster than hd

Wtf?

welcome to the 21 century grandpa

I'm 18 lol.... Sorry but when I hear memory stick I instantly think stick of ram. Never knew you could use a flash drive (it's called a flash drive, btw) as virtual memory.

[user]

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i maintain my stance grandpa

[William-CL]

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i maintain my stance grandpa

You gotta remember not everyone cares enough to learn about the technical info on computers. They simply like them to check their myspace or play some games.

[DumboDii]

Linux (can't remember which one) asks at install how much of hard drive space you want to use as RAM. So that ain't big deal.

[Rainigul]

I think it's already been cleared up: But this isn't going to improve the speed on your computer, it's not like it magically makes your harddrive faster or anything.
Also yeah, you can use windows readyboost, I myself have never done it, but it doesn't use the memory stick as ram, IIRC, then it just superfetches it, so the first time you open a program it'll take like 20-50% more time to open it, but then when you open it from then on, it'll take 10% of the usual time (flash memory is about 10X the speed of the average harddrive, IIRC again).

Yuppp.