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30-01-2009, 04:04 PM
Jamieb

Virtual RAM

Hey,

I got my old pc out last night and found a tut on youtube about virtual ram...

I had a go it and its abit faster.. can virtual ram brake the pc or anything?

Thanks Jamie
30-01-2009, 04:17 PM
Iszak

I don't think it can 'break' your computer, I've always set mine to the maximum but never really found any performance / benefits from it but that may be because I don't use all of my 1.5 GB of physical RAM.
30-01-2009, 04:21 PM
Jamieb

The pc iv done it on only has 512 mb lol
30-01-2009, 04:23 PM
BeanEgg

I would also like to know this, care to link me please?

Also, I don't think it can break your PC.

All that I know is that on Vista, ReadyBoost can slow your PC down a lot!
30-01-2009, 04:32 PM
Jamieb

I used http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKlRB1gQ0Y
30-01-2009, 06:45 PM
Firehorse

Its basically RAM which is just using space on your hard drive instead of the physical RAM. I set mine to a whopping 8gigs which I probably don't need. Its slower than the phisical one however its good if you multi task and have lots of stuff open like I always do.

(Also known as paging file)
30-01-2009, 06:50 PM
BeanEgg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stutoman

Its basically RAM which is just using space on your hard drive instead of the physical RAM. I set mine to a whopping 8gigs which I probably don't need. Its slower than the phisical one however its good if you multi task and have lots of stuff open like I always do.

(Also known as paging file)

Have you done this on Vista? If so, care to show me how?

Thanks!
30-01-2009, 06:54 PM
Stephen!

Using a page file is painfully slow. It is like 100x slower than RAM.
30-01-2009, 07:44 PM
N!ck

I wouldn't recommend using a large page file unless you have a very small amount of RAM and a fairly modern hard drive.

Hard drives are something like 10000 times more latent and about 50-100 times lower on bandwidth than RAM. Obviously it all depends on the RAM and HDDs in question though.
31-01-2009, 11:22 AM
Firehorse

Well I can tell you even with my 4GB it does help the speed a lot.
BeanEgg: Right click on computer in the start menu and go to properties then click adjust visual effects, then go to the advanced tab and the option is there.
31-01-2009, 11:26 AM
BeanEgg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stutoman

Well I can tell you even with my 4GB it does help the speed a lot.
BeanEgg: Right click on computer in the start menu and go to properties then click adjust visual effects, then go to the advanced tab and the option is there.

I'm on Vista. :(
31-01-2009, 12:55 PM
lolwut

Nah, it's not harmful. Linux does it all the time, except it's called "Swap Space". It's basically if you have only 1GB RAM or whatever, you can have more virtually which can be used in the same was as physical RAM.

I thnk that if you have a really old HDD it might cause it to overload because it pretty much means you've always got HDD Activity, so if you have a old HDD there's a little chance that it might jam or something. Am not too sure though.
02-02-2009, 08:49 AM
Firehorse

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeanEgg

I'm on Vista. :(

I'm on vista too lol. Do you want me to make you a picture tutorial?
02-02-2009, 09:09 AM
BeanEgg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stutoman

I'm on vista too lol. Do you want me to make you a picture tutorial?

Please do, I'd really appreciate it! +Rep too :D
02-02-2009, 08:40 PM
Firehorse

Oh sorry, I missed a step out thats why. Heres the pics. Red dots are where to click.

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/0312591cb876db21.jpg
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/1764591cb876db12.jpg
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/0645591cb876db13.jpg
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/655581da109d2d14.jpg
03-02-2009, 08:20 AM
Oleh

Mine was default 4gb should i increase it?
03-02-2009, 08:35 AM
Firehorse

Depends how many background services you run, great for power sucking antiviruses. As you can see I set mine to 8gb.