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 Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 18:34 Post subject: eBoostr |
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eBoostr™ allows you to use an additional drive (flash memory or hard disk) as another layer of performance-boosting cache for your Windows XP®. There is no need to purchase a Vista upgrade to get the benefits of the Vista’s ReadyBoost® technology. With the newly developed eBoostr™, the booting of your OS and applications startup get much faster thanks to the smart caching mechanism.
http://www.eboostr.com/
Sounds nice for us with XP, waiting for a cracked release.
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nouseforaname
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does this shit really work? and what would be the performance increase on games? You can get like a 4gb usb stick for peanuts now ...
edit, googling seems to indicate this does not really affect game performance.
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 19:05 Post subject: |
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I don't really know.. But it should give some visible performance increase, otherwise Microsoft wouldn't release ReadyBoost and this software is similar or even better if you trust the programmers.
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 19:10 Post subject: |
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This reminds me of the Dos software which promised to optimize your Ram, resulting in noticable performance increases, forgot its name though. It was totally useless, and i bet this is one is as well, all reports i have read about ReadyBoost seem to indicate it.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 19:38 Post subject: |
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Isn't ready boost used for cache and only helps increase application load times not run times?
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 19:39 Post subject: |
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Yes i think so, and it only seems to make a difference on PC's with older hardware.
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Nov 2007 06:17 Post subject: |
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Worth noting is that ReadyBoot is also tied into the ReadyBoost service. So disabling ReadyBoost obviously disables the ReadyBoot feature.
"Windows Vista uses the same boot-time prefetching as Windows XP did if the system has less than 512MB of memory, but if the system has 700MB or more of RAM, it uses an in-RAM cache to optimize the boot process. The size of the cache depends on the total RAM available, but is large enough to create a reasonable cache and yet allow the system the memory it needs to boot smoothly.
After every boot, the ReadyBoost service (the same service that implements the ReadyBoost feature just described) uses idle CPU time to calculate a boot-time caching plan for the next boot. It analyzes file trace information from the five previous boots and identifies which files were accessed and where they are located on disk. It stores the processed traces in %SystemRoot%\Prefetch\Readyboot as .fx files and saves the caching plan under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ecache\Parameters in REG_BINARY values named for internal disk volumes they refer to.
The cache is implemented by the same device driver that implements ReadyBoost caching (Ecache.sys), but the cache's population is guided by the ReadyBoost service as the system boots. While the boot cache is compressed like the ReadyBoost cache, another difference between ReadyBoost and ReadyBoot cache management is that while in ReadyBoot mode, other than the ReadyBoost service's updates, the cache doesn't change to reflect data that's read or written during the boot."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/03/VistaKernel/
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Nov 2007 18:10 Post subject: |
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tried with p3 128mb and 2gb flash drive, didn't do jack shit, was slow as it was with 128mb only
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Nov 2007 20:18 Post subject: |
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| whoKnows wrote: | | This reminds me of the Dos software which promised to optimize your Ram, resulting in noticable performance increases, forgot its name though. It was totally useless, and i bet this is one is as well, all reports i have read about ReadyBoost seem to indicate it. |
Quemm? It was only good to get your drivers all loaded high, so there was more memory for games. |
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