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It all depends on what your system can support... All the components can determine how much ram it can support regardless of what the system sees.
Here is someone who had a similar problem and...
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Are these benches any good at all for an OCZ Petrol? My motherboard only has SATA III ports so it's not plugged into a slower port.
so for 16gb of ram i should actually set it to 16384 MB (since...
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Yea, that's pretty much all you get with SSD. startup time. unless you load large files, you won't feel much of a difference in windows 7, as it has prefetching for most of the smaller tasks. :)
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it shouldn't be using it except in the rare case a program explicitly requests it (look at the resource monitor, it's the hard faults/second)
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Just having a recycling bin takes up space? I didn't know that. How much does it take? I always thought it just acted like another folder because I noticed that when I move something to the bin...
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My home ones I have, I've been too lazy at work :p
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windows system restore will take up space
hibernation takes up space
Recycling bin files (i personally don't use Recycling Bin at all, you can disable it or limit the size)
reduce winSXS folder:...
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For the most part, no effect or very little, but in theory, if the game required getting data constantly from the hard drive, then yes, it would be faster with the SSD at getting said info, but if...
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Got my drive in the mail a couple days ago. Is there a way to determine what firmware I have without actually booting up? Is there even multiple firmwares available for the OCZ Petrol series? I only...
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Agreed, I had bought the 64 gig M4 a month ago and absolutely love the speed improvements but I hate having to micromanage what I store on my SSD. As this was my first SSD and it was going in a...
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I find that everything opens quicker, Internet Explorer, Firefox, folders, pictures, music, video, Google Earth, Word, chat apps (Skype, Messenger, etc), and copying anything is way faster too.
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If you don't mind me saying so, the system will run slower if you assign a minimum of 512, as Windows will constantly use it. Windows seeks to never run out of physical ram, so it goes to the page...
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So I installed my 128GB Crucial M4 yesterday, initiated AHCI mode and even updated to the latest firmware, but I'm not overly impressed yet and it only raised my Windows Experience Index from 5.9 to...
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Thanks. Repped.
That is the WEI overall and for the M4 because the hard drive had the lowest score before too.
Thanks for the other info. I assume by spinners you would mean my 2TB internal...
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The screenshot below will explain the reality of the space Windows 7 uses while being economical with used space, occasionally transferring all personal data to a 2nd internal drive.
Anyone who...
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Just wanted to cross post this to make people aware that it's not possible to get an accurate size of the Windows folder: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=47153694&postcount=28
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That's it, that's the entire benefit! Anything that requires accessing your hard drive will be sped up in theory. For the casual user boot times and quicker application loads are the main advantage....
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Oh dear. This right here:
"In my case it saved 3.5GB of space."
Is reason enough not to follow that "guide". What the author is really telling you to do is remove the Service Pack backup files,...
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is that just the drive WEI or overall. My WEI for my 3 M4s is 7.8 on 2 systems and 7.7 on this one. A fresh install is the way to go because if you install Win7 to an SSD it enables many of tweaks...
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I've read that it's 16gb max and can be as small as 7gb. how much space did your windows take up? you mean to tell me that all you have on a 128gb drive is windows and a "couple" of games? that seems...
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Ok I installed the firmware using OCZs program. Now I'm trying to install Windows. I saw people say to make sure my computer is in AHCI mode for the SSD. Whenever I put my computer into AHCI mode, it...
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Rehashing an old thread that I posted in before. Just put an SSD in my HTPC as well. It has a SSD and a 3TB spinning drive. Regarding the pagefile, I disabled it on the SSD and enabled 16-6144 on the...
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Perfect.
That's what I would do too, unless I had enough ram to go with no pagefile at all, but setting it the way you did, means that Windows won't even bother to use pagefile, unless you're...
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So for my spinning drive that will have games and programs, should I still designate 16 - 163834 mb for pagefile or do system manage or what? it's an 80gb hard drive
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Only drives with an OS have the option of choosing page file or not, and options for quantities and location of said page file, so if you are adjusting the page file of your SSD, you would give it...
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Probably not. You can easily double check it.
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With 16 gigs of ram, I would disable the page file altogether, unless you run something or a combo of programs that could surpass 16 gigs.
If so, do it like in the pic, only your max of 16,384 would...
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Thanks. Repped. FYI I did update to the 0309 firmware. I thought I mentioned that in the OP.
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if you don't use the recycling bin as basically a last min safety before you delete items, there's no reason to have it active.
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Thanks. Repped. I guess my "problem" is that I never really turn off or reboot my computer unless there are Windows Updates or I go away. It's just a shame that Windows Ultimate is so huge and I...
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hmm... the drag step. does it apply if you just added a SSD drive to an existing system? windows is on a raid setup, but I added a couple of SSDs for lightroom. Would windows recognize the ssd drives...
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id just set it to like 512mb or so - windows will give you a pop-up warning in the notification area saying "low swap file space" if it uses it, some programs will require the use of a page file, but...
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I agree 100%, but it does.
The best response that I could get from Microsoft as to why it comported itself that way, was that it was a "bad command".
So in short. they seemed to recognize that it...
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Indeed! My chrome with 20 open tabs opens a lot faster.
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It's marginal, maybe a few KBs. By default Windows limits the recycle bin to a percentage of the drive (I don't remember what offhand, 3%? 5%?), so as you fill the drive, the maximum the recycle bin...
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Per the post below yours, I'm not really sure how much space Windows 7 took up (plus I'm not home now). Although I didn't do a fresh install initially, but I plan on doing one this weekend.
I...
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Thanks so much. I greatly appreciate it. I'll try those things when I get home tonight.
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This is on a dell optiplex 990 with i7 and 256g M4(similar to an xps, but the 'work' version)
WEI for the drive is 7.8 or 7.9, depends how it feels that day, today it was a 7.9.
My drive is...
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Yeah spinner as in drive with a spindle that spins :)
as far as the tweaks, I'll go down the list of the ones they list on that site for the windows 7 SSD tweaks. I don't like some of the general...
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you did update to the 0309 firmware to prevent the 5200hr bug right?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-guide-optimization-for-ssds-hdds/0_50
take a look there for some...
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