My Laptop

[Hungry Man]

i5 520m
ATI 5650 (overclocks to 700, 900)
Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive

Sony Vaio VPCEC290X

Very happy with it.

 

[Hungry Man]

Just upgraded to 8GB of RAM.

Waiting for Windows to really start caching it. It's nice to see "Free" memory slowly dwindle down as "Standy" increases steadily.

 

[iPanik]

how is the momentus XT? i have been thinking of getting one of those.

 

[Hungry Man]

It's wonderful. I get the performance I expected from it, boot times are 15 seconds, and everything opens up very quickly.

 

[McLovin]

Looks quite good to me.

 

[Shadow Death]

Windows won't use all of that 8GB unless you're using some serious memory hungry programs.

On my desktop windows uses 2.7GB max for every day tasks and probably 4GB while gaming.

 

[jamescv7]

Good, you can play any games that have high requirements with no problems.

 

[Hungry Man]

Windows won't use all of that 8GB unless you're using some serious memory hungry programs.

On my desktop windows uses 2.7GB max for every day tasks and probably 4GB while gaming.

I have eBoostr for caching and Superfetch disabled.

Also, it's useful for VM's.

 

[HeffeD]

Also, it's useful for VM's.

Also useful for RAMDisk.

 

[Mark]

Shadow Death, what are your every day tasks?

 

[Shadow Death]

Typical checking the forums(these included), ventrilo, Visual Studio, putty (ssh to my server at the college), winamp, minecraft (not really listed under gaming.

What really drags it down are games like Bad Company 2. For the most part windows will take up a fairly large chunk of ram but nothing past 3 gigs as far as I've seen. The only way I see it taking up huge hunks is if you decide to disable page files which even then I would never recommend it.

 

[Hungry Man]

My windows would only prefetch like... maximum of 1.8GB. I've disabled superfetch and I'm now using eBoostr, which uses about 3GB.

I just don't likethat it won't dynamically shrink.

 

[win7holic]

Also useful for RAMDisk.

i never use ramdisk.
and never disable superfetch.
not using anything to my laptops, just maintenance such as; tuneup utilities and ccleaner.

 

[Hungry Man]

Got rid of eBoostr. Turned superfetch back on.

I'm going to let Windows do its thing. I may open up a 1GB RAMDisk to store my Chrome User_Data folder on. I might also use it as a downloads folder for malware, that way if anything ever gets through (while testing) I can simply restart.

 

[Valentin N]

you have a good laptop As you surely know windows uses virtual ram in form of page file, so change that to 1GB (if it's 16MB it won't be able to register the BSOD in case you want to analyze them).

You could also try to see if you can upgrade it to i7-720QM.

Regards

 

[Hungry Man]

I have had my pagefile disabled since I had 4GB =p

Can't upgrade my CPU unfortunately, it's welded in. Silly Sony.

 

[Valentin N]

said to hear. Clevo make laptops that make it easy to access the cpu and the gpu.

Regards

 

[Hungry Man]

Yep. Next time I get a new computer upgrading will be a factor in the purchase. But that won't be for a while.

 

[Valentin N]

I have heard that the laptop can overheat so buy a laptop cooler with big fan (200mm and up is good)

 

[Hungry Man]

Even when gaming I only ever hit 80C. Right now I'm at 50C.

I have a cooling pad though but I never need to use it.