Can USB be used as RAM?

[wlatu69]

Hi, I was playing COD Black Ops on my laptop, but it doesn't run well at all, very jerky!! My friend suggested I try installing more ram (my laptop has 2gb ram) so he tells me to try external RAM. I go to check prices and ask the guy at the counter if they had any, and he said no, but said windows 7 has a feature that can get my PC to recognize my flash drive as RAM. Is this possible? And does anybody know how to do this?

 

[Arris]

ReadyBoost

A system with 512 MB of RAM (the bare minimum for Windows Vista) can see significant gains from ReadyBoost.[9][10] In one test case, ReadyBoost speeds up an operation from 11.7 seconds to 2 seconds (increasing physical memory from 512 MB to 1 GB without ReadyBoost reduced it to 0.8 seconds, though).[11] System performance with ReadyBoost can be monitored by Windows Performance Monitor.

Not sure how much benefit COD will get from it but it might be worth trying it out.

 

[red1776]

It acts like additional L3 cache, I used a fast flash drive on one of my previous machines, a 4850 quadfire deal and it made a marked improvement in many of the games. If you would, let us know how this works for you should you decide to try it

 

[wlatu69]

Tryd it

Hay I tried it and it worked well for me. I played COD and it was very smooth (much more smoother than before) Still a little jerky at times(prolly coz my crappy laptop) but it is a vast improvement! Thanx