virtual ram or over clocking

[Sound Freak 1995]

Ok guys I have 2 questions

one: can external drives be used to speed up a computer by way of virtual ram or any other way if so how does it work? If not can I create a virtual drive just for performance purposes

2: is this motherboard capable or good enough for overclocking?


Specs:
The Onboard Motherboard - Asus F2 A55-M (LE)
Hard Drive 1TB
4GB Physical Ram
100GB Virtual Ram

 

[lonewolf7]

Better add another 4GB of RAM. Hassle free. I don't think you can OC with that MB.

 

[geofelt]

Some cpu's can be overclocked, what do you have?

Virtual ram must be backed up by sufficient real ram.
Today, 4gb is not sufficient.

For performance, see if you can't load the os and some apps onto a SSD. You will be amazed at how quick your pc will feel, regardless of your cpu.

 

[hunter315]

Virtual RAM is not your friend, you actually want to minimize the amount that you are using or you will just slow your system down more. Virtual ram does not magically conjure up fast memory from air, it is the page file on your hard disk. Windows will try to keep active things in the quick ram and not used things in the virtual memory on the hard drive, but if it needs something from the hard drive it is amazingly slow compared to ram with latencies on the order of 5-10 ms compared to tens of nanoseconds for ram. If windows is seeing all that free virtual memory and putting stuff you are actively using on there it will actually make your experience worse which is why windows tells you that it shouldn't be set to more than twice the amount of RAM you have.