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Readyboost with Windows 7: Maximum RAM, Worth it?
I have a Dell XPS 420 with 4 GB of RAM. I currently use a 4 GB USB drive for readyboost.
I think the max readyboost has been increased under Windows 7. Would it be worthwhile to use a 16GB USB Drive or mulitple USB drives to further speed up the system?
Thanks.
GSWPitt.
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Posted October 31st, 2009 14:00
GSWPitt
I used a USB 4gb ReadyBoost, on a Vista PC with 3gb of DDR2 RAM, for over a year, then removed it and like Fireberd, found no difference in the speed. :emotion-5:
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Posted October 30th, 2009 14:00
I've got a Readyboost USB drive and I tried it with Vista and saw no difference at all (and benchmark tests did not change). I read somewhere that if you had more than 2GB of RAM that Readyboost really didn't do much. I haven't tried it with my Win 7 PC as I have 8GB of RAM in the PC.
I think this is one of those things that sounds good on paper but in actuality isn't worth it.