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Yeah I would have loved to upgrade to i7 at the end of the year =\. Oh well, maybe i5 will offer exactly what I need. I am looking forward to reviews and assuming cpu+mobo+ram is around the same price as the am3+ combo then it can only be great news for the rest of us who have not yet adopted a little 920.
I use Superspeed's Supercache product to cache my data and system drives as well as a ramdisk that holds my Windows temp folder, and have about 6GB used without anything running. If I start up a VM I get close to my memory limits. With 12 GB I could comfortably run 2 VMs as well as allocate 2GB cache to the drive that holds the virtual drives without having to manually decrease the cache on the other drives.Quote:
Originally Posted by duploxxx
Mem channels don't really matter, it's a marketing gimmick on non-server platforms. I just want more total mem!
If SSDs were cheaper/ larger they would be the biggest upgrade for me (one for OS/Apps and another for VM disks).
Yeah same here, ramdisks rock. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by salad
But imho supercache is a waste of money, cause vista has aleardy superfetch which by my impression is nearly the same.
Who needs ramdisks when you got SSDs :p:
right, that's just what i meant by putting more money to your io system in the end you will enhance your total platform performance, not just some small parts which you virtualize in a bit of RAM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Still on 8GB RAM you should be fine, perhaps time to kick that vista out?
7 months in the past, the only SDD worth buying was $$$$$. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Apart from read cache Supercache has a write-back cache with customizable period for writing data. Even if you enable write caching in Windows it still holds stuff in memory for a very short time (I think it tries to empty 25% of its cached writes every 1sec). With virtual disks I set the lazywrite period to 2 minutes and get better performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hornet331
As for Superfetch, I'm runnning XP x64 (need some older software which won't run on Vista properly) so can't use it. It wouldn't help my write situation either.
If I had the money I'd totally go for an SSD.
This is what Supercache gets me in a synthetic benchmark:
Very clean layout :clap: :up:
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Originally Posted by Shintai