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post #81 of 179
10/24/04 at 1:47am
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Originally Posted by davidmbedard
I purchased the Outpost memory and all I can say is

WOW

what a difference. I am running a 5400 rpm HDD and 1.2 gigs of ram. Thanks guys!

David
When did you order it?
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post #82 of 179
10/24/04 at 2:31am
Well, I didnt ORDER it, I just went to Fry's. They had 6 in stock. Now they have 5

David
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post #83 of 179
10/24/04 at 2:56am
Lucky sob
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post #84 of 179
10/24/04 at 8:10am
how much was the 1 gb stick? was it pc2700?
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post #85 of 179
10/24/04 at 2:18pm
It was 199 at Fry's. It is the memory stick that Thunder linked to on the first page from Outpost.com.

David
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post #86 of 179
10/25/04 at 4:17pm
It's here!! It's here!!
The transcend showed up 1 day early
So far..o/c no problems (+200mhz using clockgen), while clocking the vid to 425/225...Disabled cache.
Games run beautifully now...no stammer as before at high settings.
So far...VERY SATISFIED!
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post #87 of 179
10/29/04 at 9:20am
Do you guys still use virtual memory or is it ok to disable it once you have certain amount of physical ram? What's the performance impact of doing this?
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post #88 of 179
10/29/04 at 10:22am
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If you are confident you have enough physical RAM, you can safely disable Virtual memory. I have it disabled on one of my desktops. The performance increase is very tangible. It is one of the few "tweaks" you can easily do and really feel a difference.
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post #89 of 179
10/29/04 at 10:46am
How much RAM is enough RAM?
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post #90 of 179
10/29/04 at 11:04am
There aint such thing as enough RAM!
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post #91 of 179
10/29/04 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by colossus
How much RAM is enough RAM?
It depends on what you are running, and how much you are runnig
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post #92 of 179
10/29/04 at 11:44am
I read something in MobilePc that said you should set your Virtual Ram to either 1.5 times or 2 times your actual RAM.
I forget which.
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post #93 of 179
10/29/04 at 1:14pm
Thread Starter 
1.5x is the general rule
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post #94 of 179
10/29/04 at 2:45pm
So even with your 7200rpm drive is it still a big difference in speed if you turn it off?
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post #95 of 179
10/29/04 at 5:09pm
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Absolutely. I have never done it on my notebook, but with the difference it makes on a desktop (even faster drives), I am sure it would be a big boost on a notebook also. Hard drives have no where near the transfer rate of RAM. Taking the page file out of the memory subsystem removes that bottleneck and speeds up pretty much everything.
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post #96 of 179
10/30/04 at 1:32am
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
Absolutely. I have never done it on my notebook, but with the difference it makes on a desktop (even faster drives), I am sure it would be a big boost on a notebook also. Hard drives have no where near the transfer rate of RAM. Taking the page file out of the memory subsystem removes that bottleneck and speeds up pretty much everything.
Amen...I can vouche!
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post #97 of 179
10/30/04 at 8:11am
if i am not mistaken, windows xp will create page file even if you disabled it which is enough for its minimum usage, and there are some programs such as photoshop wont run properly without windows page file
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post #98 of 179
10/30/04 at 2:51pm
OK, so I have 1.25gb RAM now.
What's the worse thing that could happen if I turn it off?
I guess the most demanding things I do on my computer are gaming, Adobe Photoshop and video editing with Adobe Premiere.
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post #99 of 179
10/30/04 at 2:54pm
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You could probably turn it off and be ok. It should cause in errors. The worst that could happen is a drop in performance due to the system having to read from random areas on the disk instead of from virtual memory. Premiere I know won't be a problem with 1.25GB, Photoshop won't unless you are messing with some huge pictures, and games will depend on the size of the game and the size of the textures it uses.
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post #100 of 179
11/5/04 at 1:50am
I tested it out today.
I ran 3DMark03 before and after turning Virtual Memory off.
Turning Virtual Memory off dropped my 3DMark score by 14 points so I turned it back on.
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