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    How to "maximize" ram upgrade (from 256MB to 1.25GB)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by garlei, Feb 21, 2006.

  1. garlei

    garlei Notebook Enthusiast

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    i've just added 1 GB of ram to my thinkpad T43 which originally had 256 mb ram. There is a significant improvement in performance, everyday windows usage has improved by a great deal. no more tapping on the mouse in frustration, waiting for things to load, for now. Yet to test it with extensive tabbed surfing + photoshop + video + Bittorrent


    My question is, now that I've done the upgrade, what do I have to do software wise to "maximize" this upgrade? How can I tweak this notebook so that I'm using my resources wisely? Do I have to do something to pagefile?

    Any suggestions would be gladly appreciated.

    Cheers
     
    garlei, Feb 21, 2006
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    Brigand21 Notebook Consultant

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    In a word, no. The major advantage regarding the pagefile is that it's usage will be significantly decreased. From experience I prefer to put my pagefile on a seperate dedicated partition and ensure that it's size is set as 1.5* the amount of onboard memory eg. 1Gb of RAM = 1.5GB pagefile this just means that windows should never complain about it's size.
     
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  3. garlei

    garlei Notebook Enthusiast

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    How can this be done?
    My hard disc is divided into C: (25.3GB) and D: (11.8GB)

    How do I put my pagefile on D:\
     
    garlei, Feb 21, 2006
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    Right click on 'my computer' -> properties -> advanced -> performance -> advanced -> change
     
    Ice-Tea, Feb 21, 2006
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  5. garlei

    garlei Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks mate
     
    garlei, Feb 21, 2006
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