Will Readyboost Have A Positive Impact Running More Software Applicati

[Swiftkidd]

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on a 120GB Corsair Force SSD and have 1GB of ram with Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.93GHz but It gets a little choppy & laggy when using ram and cpu intensive software such as picture and video editing/rendering and virtualization software such as VMWare so will using Readyboost feature in Windows 7 with an 8GB flash drive help at all maybe even seem like I have 2GB Ram or does it only effect caching/reading times that improves browsing explorer ?


See System Specs tab for further additional info

Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate

Processor:
Intell Pentium 4 CPU 2.93GHz

Flash Drive: HP v190 8GB

Ram:
1:00GB

Storage:
2x 2TB WD Caviar Green HDD
1x Corsair Force 120GB SDD (Running my OS)
2x 2TB WD Caviar Green drives in NAS Raid 1

Edit: I know I'd benefit more from a simple ram upgrade but I don't wish to spend that money just yet as I prefer to run this computer in to the ground as I've had it coming up 7 years and was an entry level and low performance computer to start with.. in my future computer I'd junk £1500 to £2000 in self build so want as much value out this first and beside I feel I don't know enough about components to proceed with the build just yet

 

[Dsprague]

Short answer No, long answerNO because ready boost does not act as ram or as aid to the CPU it acts as a cahce for superfetch, if you had a mechanical HDD it might speed things up, but you have an ssd so your read and write times are about as good as they are going to get. here is a link to a thread that probably explains things better than I can: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/201571-how-does-readyboost-work.html

 

[Brink]

Hello Swiftkidd,

Yep, no would be your answer since you have Windows 7 running from a SSD. You would be much better off adding more RAM.

Understand ReadyBoost and whether it will Speed Up your System

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/33289-readyboost-setup-use.html#post339977

 

[Layback Bear]

The simple answer is NO. You have 1 gig of ram which is just not enough ram to run Windows 7 correctly. I would add more ram specified for your motherboard.