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02-12-2011, 07:14 PM #1
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How to Upgrade Your RAM Using a USB Flashdrive

Upgrading your RAM will make your computer run more efficiently. Games, internet browsing and application speeds will increase.

1.) Plug your flash drive into one of the USB ports. Make sure you have no important files saved to the flash drive. The higher the memory on the flash drive, the more RAM you can add to you computer, however, certain computers can only use so much.

2.) Click Start > Computer > Right Click your flash drive > Properties



3.) Go to the Ready Boost tab and check the "Use this device." box. Now drag the slider all the way to the right, so you can use your flash drive to it's full potential. Click apply then Ok.


As you can see I have added 1902 megabytes of RAM, which is almost 2 Gigs.

4.) Now just to check if everything worked open up your flash drive and you should have a ReadyBoost file located inside of it.



And there you go your computer should now run more smoothly! Remember the more RAM you add the more of a difference you should see in performance.

Some IMPORTANT Things:
-The RAM added will not show up in your installed memory because it is "Virtual memory".
-Do not unplug your flashdrive while your computer is on, turn off before unplugging. Computer may crash if unplugged while computer is on.
-You can use as many flashdrives as you have USB ports.
-I recommend changing the name of you flashdrive to something involving "RAM" so you don't save any files to it.

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02-22-2011, 07:38 PM #74
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Originally posted by MrFancyHacker View Post
well i really dont care what you think most of the people that read this worked for them prob you didnt get lucky if you tried i really dont care im just trying to help people around here so ya ClapsClaps


Im just stating the facts because I actually know what it does rather then act like I do.
The only reason you would see this being faster is because of things going straight to pagefile it will instead goto the flash drive which on a low end system with a crappy harddrive will be faster since there isn't a seek time on flash memory. Hence why SDD's outperform most SATA drives. But if you have a fast Harddrive and decent hardware this is pointless.

Please don't turn a blind eye to something simply because you don't like the fact that someone pointed out the flaws in your claims, man up and at least correct those problems
02-22-2011, 07:46 PM #75
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Originally posted by UP View Post
Im just stating the facts because I actually know what it does rather then act like I do.
The only reason you would see this being faster is because of things going straight to pagefile it will instead goto the flash drive which on a low end system with a crappy harddrive will be faster since there isn't a seek time on flash memory. Hence why SDD's outperform most SATA drives. But if you have a fast Harddrive and decent hardware this is pointless.

Please don't turn a blind eye to something simply because you don't like the fact that someone pointed out the flaws in your claims, man up and at least correct those problems


good boy :p
02-22-2011, 10:55 PM #76
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Originally posted by dylandavidson1 View Post
thanks man ill try it just now

---------- Post added at 07:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:55 PM ----------

There is no ready boost tab...


pm your teamviewer id n password and ill do it on xp for you :black::black:
02-22-2011, 11:17 PM #77
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Good to know, since my GPU steals the extra RAM anyways. (Not that it decreases performance, it's just cool to have more RAM in general.)
02-23-2011, 12:00 AM #78
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Originally posted by Anarchotron View Post
Good to know, since my GPU steals the extra RAM anyways. (Not that it decreases performance, it's just cool to have more RAM in general.)


lmfao thnx :P iknow it comes in helpful Outie
02-23-2011, 02:47 AM #79
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one question how the fck you guys be getting so many Gigs on flash drives lmfao wtf o.O
02-23-2011, 04:08 AM #80
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If I recall, this is not good for your system at all
02-23-2011, 06:31 AM #81
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Originally posted by woofdawg233 View Post
If I recall, this is not good for your system at all


how is it not good o.O

---------- Post added 02-23-2011 at 01:31 AM ---------- Previous post was 02-22-2011 at 11:46 PM ----------

we should try to make this thread of the year guys Happy
02-23-2011, 07:19 PM #82
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Originally posted by woofdawg233 View Post
If I recall, this is not good for your system at all


There's nothing negative about it since it's using the flash drive as added pagefile. You can actually even pull the drive out without doing a safe removal and it will just push everything back to the pagefile. So it's pretty safe all around

Originally posted by MrFancyHacker View Post
how is it not good o.O

---------- Post added 02-23-2011 at 01:31 AM ---------- Previous post was 02-22-2011 at 11:46 PM ----------

we should try to make this thread of the year guys Happy


If the information in it was correct I could see that

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