Saturday, October 29, 2011

Understanding how windows uses RAM - Why you Want Loads of it!

 A history Of Ram Caches, prefetcher and superfetch!
Ever since the dawn of computing random access memory (RAM) has always been a limiting factor, it determines how much information  the cpu can "juggle  in the air" to keep a program open and to display its contents, early on programs were made to fit specific ram requirements (not to mention much earlier you only had around 600kb of base system memory to work with!!) because RAM was never cheap, at around  100$ for 4 megabytes (yes MegaBytes), windows 1.0 came and demanded for more, these where the days where you could only open 2 applications at much, before windows notified you ran out of memory!
 You could only run as many programs that the memory could handle 
these two are too big for the system memory!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

16GB of ram and How to Migrate Raid0 from one system to another (different chipsets/controllers)

DISCLAIMER: This guide is specific to newer motherboards that include  raid chipset in some or most of the sata ports, from both brands of AMD and NVIDIA, the success rate depends on many variables mainly the  hard drive interface controller and how well the operating system can deal with the swtich to another one (this resuslts in blue screens of death in few ocations, always have a back up of your data!)

I NEED MORE RAM! (8 is not enough!)
As you may remember on a previous post (double your speed with raid0) i told the tale of how i doubled the speed of my computer by adding together 2 hard drives and form a RAID 0 array, dividing the write times in half and increasing the read performance by two, i slapped 8 gigs of DDR2 ram to that computer and i was gold! resources available at all times... but having many open projects and a game by the side, really slowed down my system!


 need more ram!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

New domain name and how to properly configure it! - A personal note

100+ FOLLOWERS - Thank you
Posting my experiences here on this site,  i never expected to have such response, i have visitors from all over the globe,  people seem to love what i have shared so far,  and  i have been given a little help from my sponsors as well, i realized i should thank you all for your support, something that encourages me so much and makes me smile :D

COMPUHENTO.COM : godaddy.com to the rescue
Well the time has come to roll up my sleeves and   take things a bit more serious.. nothing big of a change here, other than to continue to  give you what i have so far, i decided to change my webpage name to something shorter something unique, COMPUHENTO  a word that joints my rl nickname  and the computer acronim of what i have dedicated my life to.