Is readyboost any use at all on a fairly quick PC?

[shaithis]

The other boon of Windows 8.1 is that I have yet to see it do anything wrong with regards to power management, sleeping and waking.

I wouldn't have though that with 4GB RAM and a decent HDD that you would see any benefit from ReadyBoost...it only seemed to provide benefits in very RAM limited situations.

But seriously, smack her over the head with the SSD until she accepts it back!

[Spreadie]

Is readyboost still going? I thought Intel's SRT was the nw readyboost, albeit using a small SSD to cached the HDD.

SRT works pretty well, but it was a bit of a pig to set up.

[DanceswithUnix]

But seriously, smack her over the head with the SSD until she accepts it back!

Her Karate is somewhat higher belt than my Judo, not sure I fancy my chances there. And this way I get a spare SSD to play with

I think she is happy with nobbling steam so it doesn't check gigabyte of game downloads on startup which I think it what it was doing. Annoyed that the "don't start on power up" tick box doesn't work on the Steam client, but a few moments on Google found a simple answer to that. When I told her what I had done she said "that's fine, if I click on a game then I know I have plenty of time to spare for it to do it then".

Is readyboost still going? I thought Intel's SRT was the nw readyboost, albeit using a small SSD to cached the HDD.

SRT works pretty well, but it was a bit of a pig to set up.

This is a fairly old AMD based box, DDR2 ram and I think the old 3Gbps sata ports are what freaked the SSD. No chance of some modern tech like that, but still quite fast enough for playing Civ5.