I know that many
The performance of
Understandably so. Some
My son and I built my desktop about 2 ½ years ago on a budget.
I kept the budget at $700, but I really just needed the “box” as I had a monitor, keyboard, and 500GB ssd (sata).
I have added a few things the past few years, a ton of storage (10.5TB total) including a nice 2TB nvme m.2 (gen3) boot drive. Using the same 4 ½ year old cpu.
Recently (Christmas) I received a really nice Christmas gift (that I asked for) of 64GB of DDR4 3200 ram. It was an upgrade from the 32GB of DDR4 2667 ram that I had before. Faster and double the capacity.
Many of you
I don’t have a benchmark before the ram upgrade, I believe that it was a modest boost (+6-8%), but I have learned a little bit about the
Swap files are temporary files/folders that
I read several posts on CN post about increasing the number of swap files. Seems strange, but if you do an internet search, you will find many references to using multiple swap files to increase
It helps to have a fast storage drive (nvme or ssd) to create the swap files on, but it also seems that
Below are some tests that I did recently and the results did surprise me.
Yes, spending lots of money on better, faster hardware components can surely increase the performance of
Under the EDIT drop down menu, you will find GLOBAL PREFERENCES. At PREFERENCES, select Directories and Network. From there, you can see the default Swap storage directories.
This was my
I created six folders on my C: drive (nvme) to use as temporary swap files (I really don't think that it matter where you create the folders.
Here is the benchmark with no change except using six swap storage directories (15635). A 26% increase in the
I created a 16GB ramdrive (out of my 64GB of total ram) using free software and dedicated it to swap file directories.
The benchmark went up to 16236 a 30% increase in the
I have since tested both the nvme and ramdrive with four swap file directories and the performance was basically the same as with six swap file directories. So, some fine tuning can help.
Your mileage may vary depending on your hardware.
Hope that this is helpful!