Quote Originally Posted by daviddoran View Post
Any updates to the RAM Drive question now that you have 64GB? I have 64 myself and most of the time it sits unused, so I figure if there's any improvement, it's worth it. I'm just concerned that if the PC crashes or the power goes out, I lose data, so I'd like to know which software package handles the folder synch the best.

DimmDrive looks pretty good to me, designed with gaming in mind rather than general computing.
I honestly don't have any new information at this time and the new machine that I just built was showing numbers that I wasn't happy with when using the RAM Drive, that is, until I OC'd the processor -- Now they're back on par.

But, I'm going to stick to my original conclusion that a RAM drive really doesn't give that much of a performance boost over a modern high-performance SSD using a SATA III interface. When moving from a traditional HDD over to an SSD, you can definitely feel the boost in performance; but when moving from an SSD to a RAM Drive... There's just not that much of a noticeable improvement, if any, at all.

The textures have the ability to load ~20x faster when using a RAM Drive, but we're (referring to MMO players) still restricted by latency and how fast the server can deliver the information to our client(s).

As for the syncing stuff, I haven't delved too deep into the Primo software that I use and I'm not really too concerned with it because I would never expect to be working on my UI or anything like that when using the RAM Drive. Seeing as it takes about 60 seconds to move the entire WoW folder from my SSD into a RAM Drive, I would have done any work on my UI (or whatever else) and then moved the folder to the RAM Drive to play.

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To elaborate on my original conclusion:

A full 64GB of RAM can be pricey and anyone who doesn't have a system that's capable of handling that much RAM shouldn't feel like they're missing out on some ridiculous, must have, performance boost that's going to give them an edge in their favorite game. Hell, even those who do have a system capable of handling that much RAM shouldn't feel that way because, again, RAM at 8x8GB is expensive.

I'd highly recommend putting your money toward a nice fast SSD instead, specifically for your games and not being shared with the OS, and then you can enjoy 3-8 second loading screens -- They don't get much faster than that. Then put the extra money you just saved toward a new CPU or GPU so that you can turn up the video settings and get more FPS.