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really advantage to turn off virtual ram ??
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I have heard many people said if your system a lot of ram ( 1GB or more ) you can have better performance as your windows will fly with RAM instead go back to the virtual ram. So is this true ?
I have heard many people said if your system a lot of ram ( 1GB or more ) you can have better performance as your windows will fly with RAM instead go back to the virtual ram. So is this true ?
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So There is no other alternative but have to use the virtual memory ? what about 2GB and use some software fresh up the memory once a while so, would be avoid the bottleneck with hdd speed compare to ram ?
The point here is that the more physical memory you have, the less you will use and/or need virtual memory. That doesn't mean you should delete your pagefile - you should still leave your system with the option of using virtual memory - Windows uses virual memory for storing things that haven't been accessed in RAM recently, regardless of the amount of RAM available.
That doesn't negate the fact that having more memory will significantly increase the performance of your pc in most instances. Keep in mind that all subsystems rely on each other, and any bottleneck will slow things down. A 486 with slow IDE drives won't benefit much from 2GB of RAM! Also, depending on how many applications you run, and how big those applications are, there will be a point where adding more memory will become irrelevant. PublicFatality gives the example of Photoshop with big projects, but in my experience, 1GB of RAM is way more that enough for the typical desktop user out there.
JP
That doesn't negate the fact that having more memory will significantly increase the performance of your pc in most instances. Keep in mind that all subsystems rely on each other, and any bottleneck will slow things down. A 486 with slow IDE drives won't benefit much from 2GB of RAM! Also, depending on how many applications you run, and how big those applications are, there will be a point where adding more memory will become irrelevant. PublicFatality gives the example of Photoshop with big projects, but in my experience, 1GB of RAM is way more that enough for the typical desktop user out there.
JP
JP, I agree, 1GB of RAM should be adequate for most desktop users. However, the photoshop example was explaining with virtual memory turned off... you can see how that can be a problem, especially if more then 1 project is open.