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First you have to understand how cache works. lets do a math problem to show you how it works.. lets say you add 99 +2 you add the nine plus two so you have to carry the one, how do you carry it, it goes to cache. In all my years as geek, I have seen where a slave drive used for cache does increase the speed of the machine. Useing a high speed thumb drive would be good for this instance. I have not tried it yet and dought I will but I dont see why you cant set xp or 98 to use the thumb drive as a cache drive. As long as the bios picks up the thumb drive as a drive on bootup.
Will this work, on paper yep it will work. In reality, with a machine running 2 to 4 gigs of ram as most machines can do these days, in some cases it would be cheaper to buy actual memory, there is no program that can boost your machine than actual memory. Now useing a thumb drive as actual memory does increase the memory so I am not exactly sure how much of a boost you would get over real memory. Would I buy this, No. I would look into real memory. I have had these so called memory boost programs in the past, all they did was clear the real memory onto the hard drive as cache, did I get that much out of them, nope.. seemed to just bog the machine down trying to clear memory into the cache.
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