Virtual RAM

[Jamieb]

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

[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.

[Jamieb]

The pc iv done it on only has 512 mb lol

[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!

[Jamieb]

I used http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKlRB1gQ0Y

[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)

[BeanEgg]

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!

[Stephen!]

Using a page file is painfully slow. It is like 100x slower than RAM.

[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.

[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.