Maximus viii hero and the asus Ramcache

[Leslu]

Heyo

Ive created this thread under Motherboard category because the software "asus ramcache" came with the asus maximus viii hero.
The description sounds nice as it shall fasten up often used programms/games.

Question between: Does it really help?

I just wanted to know, if there is some kind of guide how much "dram cache allocation" I shall set in this programm. I googled, but maybe I googled wrong. I havent found an answer, maybe Ive just read it over.

Maybe my hardware can help to answer this:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero
Ram: GSkill 2x8Gb ddr4
Card: Msi Gtx 980

Hope that are all important parts

I really thank you for any help

 

[Leslu]

Okay, seems to be a very unknown unused programm, as nobody has an idea

Too bad, sounded good

 

[RogueEric]

I have the exact same question with almost the exact same setup. Bump for the answers or advice on this. The ASUS manual doesn't give much detail.

I would imagine the bigger the cache the better. I only ever use about 6GBs of memory, or half of my total like you, so I could definitely hand over 4 Gigs or so to RAMcache. That being said, I have heard that it only really helps mechanical hard drive access times and wouldn't necessarily have much of an impact caching an SSD partition.

 

[Leslu]

Im gonne write asus, Im sure they know at least what setting is the best.
Ill report here

edit:havent an answer yet but found this test so far
http://anton.logvinenko.name/en/blog/redis-vs-memcache-vs-memcached.html

Sounds like it isnt as good as it sounds, or better said there is better software

But ive googeled the other progs and they are linux based or whatever and it looks like you would have to write all your wanted options with commands in that littl black box. Looks like work.

Maybe Ill give Memcache from Asus a try 😀

And now waiting for Asus Answer

 

[RogueEric]

Cool! Thanks for the research. Let us know what ASUS has to say!

 

[Tradesman1]

It depends on what you do or want to do. It's basically nothing more than a RAM Drive, it come in handy for many things. Many use it when working with large data files that will be changing often (like video). Others might load programs or games for faster loading, there is no 'optimal' amount to have/use, it all depends on what you plan to do 😉 I use them on occasion for certain projects and it's ranged from 2-3 GB up to about 12-16GB

 

[Leslu]

Yeah so I got the answer from asus too.

The programm simply simulates the chosen amount of Ram into Harddrive. (of course with the speed of ram, as ive understood right)

Means if you got 16gb ram, you are free to chose how much of it you want to take off.
It shouldnt be 1:1 because there wouldnt be any Ram left for the system to run.

maybe just play around with higher amount until windows starts to cry it has not enough ram to work ^^