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    Any reason to use a program like eBoostr?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Hungry Man, Aug 9, 2011.

  1. James D

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    I use DataRam RAMDisk. And it makes my boot VERY slow if I choose it to use 1GB. Even with 200MB it increased boot for about 10 seconds minimum. Well, at least I learned how to use it, it has no other bug and its free :)
     
    James D, Aug 11, 2011
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  2. Hungry Man

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    I don't reboot anymore anyways thankfully.
     
    Hungry Man, Aug 11, 2011
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    I joined the team and installed eBoostr 4.0 a few minutes ago. I'm really curious whether it makes any difference on a Windows 7 system.
    Allocated 1,5 GB RAM to start with (I do really need the rest, as I have disabled the pagefile on the HDD, which made a huge performance difference on first place)

    Let's see :)
     
    Gracy123, Aug 11, 2011
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    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Curious to know your opinion after you use it for a bit.
     
    anseio, Aug 11, 2011
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  5. Hungry Man

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    As am I.

    How much is Windows superfetch using right now?
     
    Hungry Man, Aug 11, 2011
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    How do I find out?
    Or do you mean eboostr?
     
    Gracy123, Aug 11, 2011
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  7. Hungry Man

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    Ctrl + Shift + Escape

    Performance tab

    Physical Memory -> "Cached"

    I'm currently caching 4,621 MB :D Glad to see Superfetch is finally kicking in!

    Faith in Windows restored ;)
     
    Hungry Man, Aug 11, 2011
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    3GB exactly. I assume this is in addition to the 1GB I have assigned to eboostr.
     
    Gracy123, Aug 11, 2011
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    eBoostr is useless when you have a SSD.
     
    Patrck_744, Aug 11, 2011
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    Not a true statement.

    My SSD reads at up to 220MB/s, while eboostr from my DDR3 1333 10600 RAM reads at up to 2200MB/s.

    This is the difference between something that already opens up very fast to opening up a little bit faster.
     
    anseio, Aug 11, 2011
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    Eboostr pages the info in unused memory and on flash media. In my case it is only on flash media. It collects the info on the apps you prioritize and use the most. My hdd powers up less and the programs load up quicker.
     
    reb1, Aug 11, 2011
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  12. Hungry Man

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    The cache is in addition to eboostr, yes. Eboostr is consider commited private RAM.

    I think I'll use eBoostr again if I ever have a SSD for my expresscard.
     
    Hungry Man, Aug 11, 2011
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    What's the point of buying SSD for expresscard and having a mechanical HDD to boot from :confused: That's useless and only reasonable if expresscard SSD was much cheaper which it isn't.
     
    Gracy123, Aug 12, 2011
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    Actually it is cheaper. Cheaper to buy 16GB ExpressCard SSD and put 16GB eBoostr cache on it while using HDD. I was thinking about it BUT does it really worth of buying 60GB SATA SSD paying little bit more which I am going to buy soon?
     
    James D, Aug 12, 2011
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    is your RAM fully utilized(i.e., what is your average free memory reading) ?

    If not, the gain of 'big cache' is unlikely to be noticeable. Intel tried that(and again), Microsoft tried that, Seagate tried that but none becomes mainstream.
     
    chimpanzee, Aug 12, 2011
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    If it was cheaper it would make sense. I need space so it makes no sense for me to buy a 120GB SSD and anything larger than that is ridiculously expensive.
     
    Hungry Man, Aug 12, 2011
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    I must say that if you open eBoostr folder there is exe file eBoostrMeasure which you can launch for checking how does it work opening certain applications. However I am not sure that that rates and marks and other are true and gave no mistakes.
     
    James D, Aug 12, 2011
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