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    Best ReadyBoost memory....

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rhino.software, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. rhino.software

    rhino.software Notebook Consultant

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    i currently have a sandisk 2gb extreme III sd card x133 20mb/s in the built in card reader and i was wondering if i bought the new 40mb/s sandisk 266x extreme IV 4gb compactflash and aso a ExpressCard Adapter for CF/Microdrive would that be faster by a large margin on system performance as i have 4gb ddr2??

    just a thought as i dont want to go the usb way as they are slower and the built in card reader dont support the newer high density sd cards
     
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  2. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    No... if you have 4GB of ram then Readyboost will make little to no differance. You dont even need readyboost. Spend your money on something else.
     
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    depends on what you are doing, but probably not.

    readyboost only seems to be helpful when people are using more memory than they physically have available. if you do that- you have to cache that data somewhere.

    it goes on the harddrive (very slow)

    if you have readyboost, it goes on the flash memory (still very slow, but a little better)

    but if you already have 4 gigs of memory, you shouldn't have a need for a page file... i guess it depends on what you are doing.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 19, 2007
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