Remembered this post. I think your DDR3-2133 speed is more accountable for your ramdisk performance than you think. I am also using DDR3-1600 on SB-E 4x4GB modules and these are my results for a ramdisk.
As an aside, anyone have a good use for a ramdisk for someone who basically only games, encodes x264 and uses Office with their system ? 16GB is more RAM than I need really and I could devote a few GB to a Ramdisk if there was some sort of system performance boost to be had.
I'm really surprised that your quad-channel DDR3-1600 bandwidth is not boosting your ramdisk scores above and beyond that of the paltry bandwidth of my dual-channel DDR3-2133
Latency will be in my favor, but overal bandwidth and capability to move GB's of data should be in your favor. Especially for something that scales as well as ramdisks do.
dual-channel DDR3-2133:
dual-channel DDR2-800:
You already have an SSD for your OS and apps?
I stopped using my ramdisk and my raid-0 iRam drives when I purchased my G2 160GB, the performance difference between the two setups was unnoticable.
If you don't have an SSD then yeah, setting your temp folder and internet cache folder to a ramdrive can help make things a bit snappier.
What ramdisk software is everyone using?
The Pentium 60 MHz cost $878 when it came out in1993.That's $1307 in 2010 dollars. Neat.
^ Perhaps the fan profile is being glitched (or simply not used) when coming out of sleep and the CPU simply isn't getting proper cooling.
You already have an SSD for your OS and apps?
I stopped using my ramdisk and my raid-0 iRam drives when I purchased my G2 160GB, the performance difference between the two setups was unnoticable.
If you don't have an SSD then yeah, setting your temp folder and internet cache folder to a ramdrive can help make things a bit snappier.
I've been experimenting with the same thing and yup, for anything I've been doing the difference is functionally unnoticeable. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. I think there may be advantages to moving the swap file off of the SSD (based on what I know, I'd recommend this) and obviously RAM is faster than spindles for swap files, but I have not been able to see any significant performance boost. Of course the fricking machine is ridiculous, and it's not even a high-end build.