Increase your PC's speed, without upgrading or spending money!

[Xazax]

No, this isnt "GET FREE RAM FOR YOUR COMPUTER" using some internet junk to fool people into thinking they can make there PC's faster. These are ACTUAL programs that MAY! again MAY help increase your PC's performance without you spending a single penny.

Here are the two programs you require

"RAMDISK" (note only a 15-day Trial)
http://www.superspeed.com/download/trialversions.php

Eboostr (Note only a free Beta)
http://beta.eboostr.com/

Please note, you will need 4GB DDR/DDR2/DDR3 ram or more for this to be effective, 3GB is cutting it close i don't recommend doing it with 2GB or less.

What you do
1) Download both programs
2) Install and run RAMDISK, make a "Fake" HDD with it 1GB or higher(depending on how much ram you have installed.

Wanna see the difference between an Mechanical HDD and RAMDISK HDD?

(HDD was a Western Digital 250GB 16MB cache, Ram was DDR2 800mhz CAS5)



Now with RAMDISK Windows should see it as an actual HDD, yes you can store files on it but that's for another session.. make sure to format the RAMDISK.

*Note* once you make the RAMDISK Whatever size you made it, Windows will always see the amount of ram you made in in "use"




Now with that done, install Eboostr its going to require a restart. Once your back in windows it will ask you to configure a device for it. You'll see the RAMDISK drive you made select it and build a cache.



That's it your all done, you got a free performance boost.

How does it work? Well i can give you the simple version.

RAMDISK makes Windows read set amount of ram as an HDD and Eboostr Cache's frequently used programs. So what your doing is using your system memory, which is really fast, to act like an HDD which Eboostr then uses to cache programs that can be called-up @ anytime instead of accessing the slower mechanical HDD.

PART 2
Subjective Analysis, Does it actually increase performance at all?
(Coming Soon!)

[Marineborn]

thats pretty cool actually thanks brah i might have to give this a run

[Mussels]

so it does the same thing as vista/7 superfetch?

[Xazax]

Ill have to get the performance numbers to show you guys if it works or not as of right now its really up to you guys, I dont have the time ATM to do so, but i will see if these programs are better.

@ Sneekypeet sorta but not really
@ Mussles, We'll see with the performance numbers I will compare a Basic Windows 7 fresh install compared to ones with those programs loaded on it.

[TheLaughingMan]

Will watch this to see if it really helps.

Thanks! I'm going to try it later today.

[Mussels]

installed the Eboostr, but it wants a reboot. i dont plan on rebooting for another week or so, so i cant test yet.

[slyfox2151]

Originally Posted by Xazax

Ill have to get the performance numbers to show you guys if it works or not as of right now its really up to you guys, I dont have the time ATM to do so, but i will see if these programs are better.

@ Sneekypeet sorta but not really
@ Mussles, We'll see with the performance numbers I will compare a Basic Windows 7 fresh install compared to ones with those programs loaded on it.

you cant compare it to a fresh install of windows..... Superfetch will only work effectivly after some use.

windows 7 already caches programs into ram without the need for eboostr, how ever if you cached onto a fast mediem such as a Raptor or SSD instead of ram, then you might see benifit as you could cache a lot more.

[Mussels]

the main advantage of this over readyboost would be that you can choose what gets cached.

Unfortunately, seems useless for gamers.

[Xazax]

Originally Posted by slyfox2151

you cant compare it to a fresh install of windows..... Superfetch will only work effectivly after some use.

windows 7 already caches programs into ram without the need for eboostr, how ever if you cached onto a fast mediem such as a Raptor or SSD instead of ram, then you might see benifit as you could cache a lot more.

What i mean by fresh install, is a New install of windows 7, loaded with my usual apps. Games, Coders etc. right now about 70 some gigabyte's

then ill install the programs, and see if anything has changed, I.E is it faster?

[KainXS]

you got somethin naughty on your desktop lol

[Dippyskoodlez]

The whole ramdisk idea has been around for a while, when people started with XP it was relatively handy, but it requires large amounts of ram... and is also volatile, so be careful :P

Curious, since ram is getting a bit larger than most people will use (8gb+) at a lot of times, if it'll return to actually improving performance any. WTB benchmarks.

[Xazax]

I think this way is "suppose" to work better then window's prefetch, but again it all remains in subjective testing.

[Dippyskoodlez]

Originally Posted by Xazax

I think this way is "suppose" to work better then window's prefetch, but again it all remains in subjective testing.

I thought Windows' prefetch was relocating files to faster locations in the hard drive(Although it may also use extra ram for this, I'm not sure.).

Think of it more of a readyboost. Cached files are stored on a faster, albeit smaller drive (Pendrive/Ram) instead of the slow hard drive. It's faster to store/access files located in memory than it is on the hard drive. Move files to the ramdisk, and they will ofcourse, have very rapid access times.

All the ramdisk program does, it reserve a large, specific amount of memory, and then pretends to be a storage drive.

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

someone on here already did this and did benchies .. newtekie i think

[3dsage]

Theres a thread where, fitseries installed Pcmark on his ramdisk and got an insane boost in his score.

[DirectorC]

I got myself RAMDisk Plus. I keep Firefox on it for now, with everything--app, user profile and cache--hard drive does almost nothing now when I launch, use and close Firefox with my dozen+ constant tabs. And some very VERY fast page loading

But you gotta have the Plus edition for 64-bit, or so I heard. Can't wait til I upgrade from 2GB. If I go 6 or 8 I will have entire apps in there. Maybe even a VM drive or two

[BraveSoul]

finally could put 8gb of ram to some use

[Irish_PXzyan]

Ok I just got it and checking it out.
I am a little confused with building the cache.

When I select configure devices, I choose RAMDISK.
Then I choose Use this device for caching.
Then is says select the cache size, I have up to 996MB to choose from. I made 1GB using RAMDisk.

Do I set all of it to max?? 996mb??? and build the cache??
or only a small amount of it??

[Darkgundam111]

use all of it. I am also trying this out, just downloaded the stuff, very very interesting i must say.

[Irish_PXzyan]

Would you leave some left over if you want to put your own stuff on it? Like photoshop CS4??

[Irish_PXzyan]

I checked the RAM usage and it's using an extra 1gig of RAM and now only left with 1.5gb??
is that supposed too happen??

i thought this uses beyond the 3.25gb limit???

[douglatins]

Originally Posted by KainXS

you got somethin naughty on your desktop lol

You mean naughty in a non sexual way then i think i found what you say"Z"

[EastCoasthandle]

This is not a good sign when no one has reported any results yet.

[DirectorC]

Originally Posted by EastCoasthandle

This is not a good sign when no one has reported any results yet.

Well, I don't know about EBooster, but I did write about how RAMDisk Plus has made my Firefox browsing experience a whole lot better and faster.