Smart Ram / Ram Boosters

[DarkDavil]

If anyone has heard of those type of softwares (like WinAshampoo's RAM Booster or something like that). I would like to know if these work in W7?

my favorite is the one by IOBit. It comes with their Advanced System Care something like that XD

 

[pparks1]

If anyone has heard of those type of softwares (like WinAshampoo's RAM Booster or something like that). I would like to know if these work in W7?

I think the better question would be, does anybody know if these applications work, PERIOD. I don't believe they do anything positive. And with RAM as cheap as it is, why invest in software when RAM can be had so cheap???

 

[Antman]

Yes, they work. The apps will dump RAM content to page, and some will even create their own "version of a page file". Do they serve a valid purpose? Yes. They generate revenue with sizzle.

Save your money. Buy steaks. Or RAM.

 

[DJG]

Yes, they work. The apps will dump RAM content to page, and some will even create their own "version of a page file". Do they serve a valid purpose? Yes. They generate revenue with sizzle.

Save your money. Buy steaks. Or RAM.

Yes, you gotta, hafta, wanna love the vagaries of linguistic interpretation ...

I'll pass on the steak, being a vegetarian, and go for the RAM rather than the ram ...:huh:

 

[Dinesh]

Auslogics boost speed. It has a RAM booster.

 

[DarkDavil]

Yes, you gotta, hafta, wanna love the vagaries of linguistic interpretation ...

I'll pass on the steak, being a vegetarian, and go for the RAM rather than the ram ...:huh:

Nice DJG, I'm a vegetarian my-self

But Smart Ram (Included in Advanced System Care Pro(?) worked amazing-ly on my Vista x64. And as for Auslogics, yes i already have Auslogics BoostSpeed, but i dont like their Ram booster, its horrible, i dont like Auslogics to be running ALL the time Thanks for input ya'll

 

[Taliseian]

From all the research I've done over the years, "ram boosting" or "ram defragging" or "ram optimizing" software does nothing more than standard background tasks that windows already does.

Ram is fast enough it doesn't need to be 'defragged'. As for 'boosting' or 'optimizing', you really are better off just getting more ram. There is no better system performance gain than more ram. I've run XP, Vista, and 7 on systems with less then 1g and my current system with 6g triple channel. The more ram my system had, the better it ran, regardless of CPU speed.


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[DarkDavil]

I hear ya. But thanks for input I go

 

[spazzie]

From all the research I've done over the years, "ram boosting" or "ram defragging" or "ram optimizing" software does nothing more than standard background tasks that windows already does.

Ram is fast enough it doesn't need to be 'defragged'. As for 'boosting' or 'optimizing', you really are better off just getting more ram. There is no better system performance gain than more ram. I've run XP, Vista, and 7 on systems with less then 1g and my current system with 6g triple channel. The more ram my system had, the better it ran, regardless of CPU speed.


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The "More RAM = better it ran" scenario worked a treat in the XP era but from my everyday experience with Vista since 2005 and Windows 7 from Technet 2008 its a different story altogether.

By design Vista / Windows 7 use all available RAM for caching applications running on SATA, ultra fast RAID disks even SSD drives rather than leaving the RAM for the 'user space' so we can experience a responsive computing experience that isn't weighed down by user/OS RAM contention issues.

Interesting to note Windows 2008 Server R2 has no such prefetching service 'built in' and is therefore optimised for Enterprise applications. Pity Microsoft can't do the same on the *users* desktop.

Back to running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 on the desktop lol

 

[Antman]

Someone pushed rewind.

 

[pparks1]

Interesting to note Windows 2008 Server R2 has no such prefetching service 'built in' and is therefore optimised for Enterprise applications.

Of course, servers often serve up files to the user or run a couple of select applications (like SQL, Exchange, IIS, etc). So, there is no value really in trying to cache any applications since most start automatically. It's not often that an admin logs into the server and runs user based applications..like Microsoft Office, firefox, photoshop, etc.

Back to running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 on the desktop lol

Or within Windows 7 simply disable SuperFetch. And I seem to recall you said you were running on a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz system...that won't run 64-bit anyway.

By design Vista / Windows 7 use all available RAM for caching applications running on SATA, ultra fast RAID disks even SSD drives rather than leaving the RAM for the 'user space' so we can experience a responsive computing experience that isn't weighed down by user/OS RAM contention issues.

Seems to me a winstat mem test showed that my RAM was moving approx 7GB/s. That crushes any hard drive or RAID config I have ever seen.

Also, that so called "used RAM" is available and can be as quickly overwritten as free RAM. I simply fail to see where the performance bottleneck occurs here and where all of this contention is coming from.

 

[logicearth]

Interesting to note Windows 2008 Server R2 has no such prefetching service 'built in' and is therefore optimised for Enterprise applications. Pity Microsoft can't do the same on the *users* desktop.

Actually it does, but it is set to background processes not your applications like IE or Firefox. A server OS is tailored to run background processes.

 

[zigzag3143]

Here we go again

Ken

 

[Antman]

Fast forward...

One day, all RAM will have onboard batteries. Spazzie's grand-daughter will marry Bill Gates III and the world will live as one.

 

[spazzie]

Actually it does, but it is set to background processes not your applications like IE or Firefox. A server OS is tailored to run background processes.

Prefetch or Superfetch? I see no superfetch service in Windows Server 2008 R2

Unlike Superfetch, prefetch does work, great explanation here:
JSI Tip 5826. What is the Windows XP Prefetch?

As a test, I turned prefetch off in XP and performance blows. So the next test is Windows 7 prefetch on, superfetch off for all round performance less all the disk/RAM contention between the users workload and the OS ..its akin to the user fighting with the OS for resources and that IMO is poor programming by Microsoft.

 

[DarkDavil]

Superfetch = Off... And lol.. Spazzie banned ^^

 

[Duszolap]

Neverending story about ram optimizers - most popular myth since Windows XP. I think that it would be nice to collect such myth in one post and made it sticky - it would save money and time for those who still believe in such applications.