RAM Boost Master

Your computer's hardware components are directly responsible for performance. Generally, the beefier your machine, the more complex applications and games you can run. But with every little process and task using memory and CPU, there's a high chance you might experience drops in performance. Luckily, the market is flooded with applications like RAM Boost Master that aim to help you free some memory to push your computer to the limits.

A lot of effort was put into the design and you can see this right from the start. The intuitive interface gets you up and running in a jiffy, with an appealing look and feel, functions well-organized in tabs, as well as tooltips with thorough descriptions for operations you're not really sure about.

Real-time monitoring is activated instantly. The overview lets you keep an eye on resource usage, with a graph gathering CPU, paging file and RAM info. A panel tells you the current state and whether or not it's recommended to free up some space. In this regard, hitting the “Fast Free” or “Deep Compress” buttons trigger what the application does best, with noticeable results.

On the other hand, you can take the time and take a look at the advanced options put at your disposal. General settings let you set monitor interval and whether or not to have cleaning done automatically, as well as several lists like white, black, idle and smart, fitted with programs according to priority.

Certain Windows features can be handled. This is easily done by adjusting several sliders for window visual effects, processor time and maximum cache size of icons, with each step displaying thorough descriptions so you get a general idea of changes you make.

Enthusiasts can manually adjust minimum and maximum cache size for just the right tweaks, optimize NTFS performance, disable paging of executive data, or choose to always unload DLLs. All of your settings can be saved if you experience a considerable performance boost. There's also the possibility to revert changes by hitting the “Recommended” button.

Last but not least, all active processes are displayed in a similar manner the task manager does, with options to terminate them, but with an additional options to simply free up some allocated memory. When configurations are done, the application quietly sits in the system tray and makes sure there's always some memory available.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that RAM Boost Master is a suitable solution to get just a little more juice out of your machine, be it for gaming or complex applications. With system requirements on the rise for everything, this app is amongst the top priorities after a fresh Windows installation.