ReadyBoost?
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ReadyBoost?
Will using 1,311 MB for ReadyBoost improve Folding@home's performance? It wouldn't reduce its performance, would it? I have 8 GB of RAM.
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Zagen30
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Re: ReadyBoost?
From what I remember, ReadyBoost is basically only useful for XP-era machines that don't have enough internal memory to run Vista smoothly. If you've got enough RAM to run Vista/7 without issue (and 8 GB is way more than enough), ReadyBoost won't offer any improvements. It shouldn't reduce performance, but I can't say that with 100% certainty. I don't believe any uniprocessor or regular SMP work (i.e. not bigadv) uses much more than 100 MB of RAM.
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Re: ReadyBoost?
No help for fah. Will help Windows applications load faster.
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Re: ReadyBoost?
My guess is that it won't make much difference. F@h is mainly CPU-bound/intensive, so ReadyBoost will probably do very little for F@h, if anything. If ReadyBoost makes the client report more than 8 GB, and you have an exceptionally powerful processor (16+ cores) then it MIGHT help you get bigadv WUs which are exceptionally large and computationally difficult WUs. But that's my guess as to its impact.
EDIT: 7im knows what he's talking about, I'd go with his answer.
EDIT: 7im knows what he's talking about, I'd go with his answer.
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