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So I did this on my old PC and it seemed to speed it up a bit, but that's probably because it was terrible. SO I am talking about when you emulate say 8gb of your ssd space as RAM, but I'm wondering would I gain or lose performance here because RAM is faster than even SSD's so I was wondering if losing 4-8gb of my SSD space is worth it to make it into "RAM".

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Unless your ram usage is hitting how much you have installed in the pc, it won't make a difference anyway. 

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15 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Unless your ram usage is hitting how much you have installed in the pc, it won't make a difference anyway. 

 

Well it gets to 40-50 percent when not in a game and watching a yt video.

 

14 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Well it gets to 40-50 percent when not in a game and watching a yt video.

Although it barely goes lower and is around 40 percent when I close it.

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If you already have an SSD, chances are Windows has its pagefile located on it, so there's no reason to force do it.

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Just now, Energycore said:

If you already have an SSD, chances are Windows has its pagefile located on it, so there's no reason to force do it.

 

Sorry, but what's a page file?

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Virtual memory is only hit when your system ram is over capacity. If you aren't consistently over 90% of your system rams capacity there'll be absolutely no difference.

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1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Sorry, but what's a page file?

It's the Windows file that stores its virtual memory.

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Just now, Energycore said:

It's the Windows file that stores its virtual memory.

Oh ok, thanks.

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Just now, Abyss Gaming said:

Oh ok, thanks.

You can access it by finding the System settings (Win+X -> System on Windows 10), then clicking advanced system settings > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory

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3 minutes ago, Energycore said:

You can access it by finding the System settings (Win+X -> System on Windows 10), then clicking advanced system settings > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory

 

Thanks, I'll keep it as it is.

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22 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

So I did this on my old PC and it seemed to speed it up a bit, but that's probably because it was terrible. SO I am talking about when you emulate say 8gb of your ssd space as RAM, but I'm wondering would I gain or lose performance here because RAM is faster than even SSD's so I was wondering if losing 4-8gb of my SSD space is worth it to make it into "RAM".

The OS already does this, and i wouldn't touch it. Its called swap or virtual memory. 

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

The OS already does this, and i wouldn't touch it. Its called swap or virtual memory. 

Yea, although it did seem to help in my old PC.

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there was a company that sold software in the 90s that claimed to increase ram. All they did was increase the page file. They got screwed over by the FTC or whatever US government body is that shuts down fraudulent business.

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42 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

there was a company that sold software in the 90s that claimed to increase ram. All they did was increase the page file. They got screwed over by the FTC or whatever US government body is that shuts down fraudulent business.

 

Oh lol wow I wonder how much money they made b4 they got shut down.

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5 hours ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Oh lol wow I wonder how much money they made b4 they got shut down.

I found them on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM

600 000 sales at usd$79.99 so they made almost 50mill. In today's money it's prob double that going by the cost of petrol and property worth double what it was 20 years ago

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3 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

I found them on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM

600 000 sales at usd$79.99 so they made almost 50mill. In today's money it's prob double that going by the cost of petrol and property worth double what it was 20 years ago

Oh no windows 95 required nearly 8 megabytes of ram!!!! JEEZ MICROSOFT GET WITH THE PROGRAM! 

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