My Laptop

Hungry Man

Hungry Man

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

Sony Vaio VPCEC290X

Very happy with it.
 
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.
 
It's wonderful. I get the performance I expected from it, boot times are 15 seconds, and everything opens up very quickly.
 
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.
 
Shadow Death said:
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.
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I have eBoostr for caching and Superfetch disabled.

Also, it's useful for VM's.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
I have had my pagefile disabled since I had 4GB =p

Can't upgrade my CPU unfortunately, it's welded in. Silly Sony.
 
Yep. Next time I get a new computer upgrading will be a factor in the purchase. But that won't be for a while.
 
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.
 

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