As you know Windows XP 32 bit doesn't take advantage of 4G in memory, only about 3.14G in my machine. The other 800+ meg is not used. Well a little tool called RamDisk will put it to work, make a virtual drive out of that ram. HDtach test the speed at 2400 megbytes/second, where my SSD is only a mear 220. So I made two partition in that virtual and mounted the cache folders for FireFox in one and Maxathon in the other. Now a refresh on S2 is faster than a blink. I can page through my Boat website once and flick back and forth through the pages in zero delay time. I put a Navigation chart library out there and the display program will simply rip through moving the chart across the screen holding down and arrow key. I like! Still have about 400 meg to put to work. Could put 16 G in the machine and have some serious space, but I think I will wait to see what I can find for the rest I have now unused. This maybe better usage than genning a 64 bit system, hell I normally have less than 2G committed anyway.
Well you ought to try it now, geez, it's pretty spiffy. Just need to use Standbye instead of Shutdown to keep your cache setup in place or redo the setup after a boot.
These days I try to use SSDs. I do need to get some more spiffy performance on my mac Mini, though, because I have 5 (!) external firewire drives connected and I could go make a sandwich between clicking "open" and getting all those drives to spin up (maybe I just need to consolidate into one NAS or something).
Yeah, I use the SSDs but Ramdisk using excess ram in my system is about 11 times faster than the SSD. It does make a noticeable difference use on the right data.
