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Windows Experience Index (does anyone really trust these numbers?)

Stock Intel CPU Core i7 cooling fan and heatsink.

BFG EX-1200Watt power supply - Quad +12V Rails.

Vision 22' Monitor at 1680x1050 landscape native.

TriFire (3x CrossFire) VisionTek Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5.

12GB (6x 2GB) DDR3 Corsair Dominator RAM (PC3-12800 1TB WD Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA3 HDD.

Intel Core i7 930 2.8GHz (BIOS Adaptive Overclocking).

ASUS P6T LGA1366 Intel X58 w/ onboard 8ch Realtek HD audio.

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Windows 7 ењ†4 Home Premium w/ latest updates.

My system specs in case anyone is interested to put the tests into perspective. Marina Leigh Posts: 3339 Joined: Wed 7:59 pm Just haven't had a chance to play Skyrim much.

The impact of Fancењњache is still an unknown to me, despite that I've been running it on my system continuously for 3 days now (without any issues, btw). I anticipate that the greatest benefit will come from the Primo Ramdisk Direct IO method given the performance characteristics Romex's benchmarking indicated versus SCSI Ramdisk and basic HDD access. In the meantime, if you see any ways that I can improve the tests, please let me know, and I will modify them as is apporpriate. Not sure when I'm going to have a chance to get all these tests completed, but will post back with results as soon as I can. Record Time (additional data point, but not required).Record Time (Whiterun textures not cached).Configure RAM disk or Fancењњache variable.Romex Fancењњache (R/W/No-Delayed-Writes).Romex Fancењњache (R/W/Delayed-Write-10s).

Stopwatch ends when new screen fully loads and Autsaving message completely fades out.

Stopwatch starts when pressing 'Yes' to Fast Travel confirmation.

RAM disks contain '/skyrim/data/textures' folder and 'skyrim - textures.bsa' file only.

No character movement via keyboard or mouse (only Fast Travel).

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No changes to textures between tests although, hi-res texture and other mods are installed.

+fullproc (may be bypassed by loading with SKSE launcher).

MyDefrag Monthly for System disk run before beginning tests.

Use this test save for each new perf test.

Load a saved game, fast travel to Markarth, create a new test save.

Not the most scientific of tests, but should give some measure of indication whether the improvements are significant enough to go with one option or another or any at all. These tests are not intended to give exact loading times as they would be experienced on all systems, but rather to show the relative differences in loading times between different RAMDisk and Cache utilities. RAMdisk and Fancењњache Performance TestingДue to the general interest (and my own) in understanding the potential performance benefits of running some of the options discussed here, I've decided to go ahead and do some performance tests.

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