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new SSD toolbox released by intel

Yeah, IIRC, Superfetch is a tool Windows employs to help mitigate the pitfalls of disc drives. Thus I wouldn't be surprised if turning it off is actually better if you have all your OS and major programs on SSD.

Although this makes me curious. Given the steep cost per byte of solid state relative to disc, a lot of users run with a single SSD boot and thus might have to spill over quite a few secondary programs to a disc drive. I'm curious if in such an instance it would be better to leave Superfetch on, or even if there is a way to have Superfetch only work on certain drives (if that is at all practical)?
 
It's not odd at all since Intel has specified disabling SuperFetch. Indeed, they published a noob guide back in April to end the confusion.
 
that thread i linked too in post # 5 debates that subject endlessly, basically it comes down to what you think is right choice. i just did fresh install and left it alone, i installed the new toolbox last night and left it optimize it for me and have not noticed any difference so far with it on or off. so who knows!!! i did no benchmarks either, just going by how the system runs for me
 
I installed the new toolbox yesterday. One thing I have noticed is that disabling superfetch seems to really cut down on memory usage. Went from 1.3>1.4 down to about 850 to 950 so far. Only been up for an hour and forty minutes but it hasn't gone up. Saw this before when I used all the tweaks, never got much above 1 gig of memory usage.
 
Just installed it had most of these tweaks done already but thought i'd give it a shot.

No issues to report.
 
Oh god, not again. Could we try not to derail this once again into a Superfetch Yes/No thread? I think we had our fair share of that already 😉

@Majic 7: You're looking at the wrong numbers, the interesting value is Standby + Free not just free. Disabling superfetch should change nothing on the overall free memory, the only difference is that with superfetch standby >> free while otherwise it's free >>> standby.
 
linster said:
The guide says to NOT disable Superfetch and now Intel disables it. Go with Intel?
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Unless you're using a slow processor like an Atom or you're looking to optimize battery life as much as possible, it really doesn't matter if it's on or off. Indeed, Windows 7 will automatically manage it and configure it as needed depending on the performance characteristics of the SSD.

The only thing that explicitly needs to be disabled on an SSD is disk defragmentation. Everything else is splitting hairs.
 
@ Voo: I am aware of the differences in standby and free usage using superfetch. I am talking about actual used memory as reported in task manager. It drops from 1.4 gigs to around 1 gig and stays there. There is a 500MB usage fee for superfetch. I don't have a clue whether this makes a performance difference or not. I've never been able to tell any difference tweaked or not. I mess with it because I have some odd memory issue with sleep sometimes and I think related crash issue on restarts. My overclock is 15 hour Prime stable,10 passes of Intelburn maximum stable, and 1500% memory stable. Just fiddling with stuff. And why not discuss disabling Superfetch, since this is what the utility does and what Intel recommends. It would be nice to know why Intel does this. But barring an explanation I personally would listen to them and MS rather than random people on the internet.
 
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