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Dont forget that Windows doesn't save a dump file in the case of a BSOD if the page file is not on the system drive. Can be a nuisance if you get one.
 
the difference between RAM and the pagefile on the SSD. Ram will be faster, but probably not by a huge amount.
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RAM, even the slowest DDR, is still lightyears ahead of even the fastest SSDs. The only way SSDs can get even close to ancient DDR is by having a handful af them in RAID0, and there's no way you'll get even close to even DDR2 (much less DDR3) in terms of bandwidth with current hardware unless you can set up something like a ten-piece RAID0 array. Even then, the latency would be abysmal by comparison - it's like HDD vs SSD all over.
 
My main issue with it is not the RAM. My main issue is the parking brake slow Pentium 4m processor. It runs 2.53 GHz, but is significantly slower feeling than a 1GHz Pentium 3.

That and the DX6 or DX7 (I forget which) IPU from AMD.
 
wolfeking said:
My main issue with it is not the RAM. My main issue is the parking brake slow Pentium 4m processor. It runs 2.53 GHz, but is significantly slower feeling than a 1GHz Pentium 3.

That and the DX6 or DX7 (I forget which) IPU from AMD.
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It's still faster than mine which runs at 1.4 ghz xD
 
what process is yours at? The one I am talking about is running at the 130nm process on a northwood core.

If your running slower, I would bet that you are on a willamette core on socket 423 with RDRAM or PC133?
 
wolfeking said:
what process is yours at? The one I am talking about is running at the 130nm process on a northwood core.

If your running slower, I would bet that you are on a willamette core on socket 423 with RDRAM or PC133?
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LOL.It's AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with just one core of 1.47 ghz,256 KB of CACHE and it is super old socket A (462) :D
The best processor on the planet:D
 
ah. The way you said "still faster than mine" I assumed you meant you had a Pentium 4 too. Sorry.

But I thought that an Athlon XP was a fairly fast processor? At least way faster (C4C) than Northwood.
 
I was talking clock for clock within its own generation. Of coarse it won't be as good as a 90/65 nm Pentium 4, but I though it was fairly good for its time.
 
Yes it is true.

Explanation - If your hard drive can read/write data at 1.5gb/s that means your computer can you a certain amount of memory at 1.5gb/s.

DDR 3 - 800 has a transfer rate of 6400mb/s. If you transfer data from the cpu through the fsb at the same rate then to the hard drive now the data has to sit in a buffer while it is being written at 1.5gb/s while the driving is still trying to access other files you are working on. You have to share the 1.5gb/s with the page file and all other activities you are doing on the computer.

If you store the page file on another harddrive, you will have the OS drive using 1.5g/s read/write for activities while the second drive speed(1.5g/s) is dedicated to just read/write of temporary memory. This would decrease the bottleneck and reduce the amount you have to store in a buffer while the drive is reading and writing. Still considerably slow compared to the 6400mb/s of memory
 
I have a computer with a Pentium 4 processor in it. I merely use it for a file server that I have about 460 gigabytes of storage space on. Most of the time it is off. I only turn it on to do backups.
 
Athlon XP was a pretty good processor. It took a P4 at 3.0/3.2ghz to match a Athlon XP 3200 that just ran at 2.2ghz.
 
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