alright so i was wondering what is the optimal page file size for 2 gigs of ram and a hdd of 250gigs (if the hdd matters, i have 173 gigs of free space). Im also wondering what it really affects and if ill see any performance boost or anything of the like. Thanks in advance.
You can have Windows handle the page file size automatically for you - but if you want to set one for yourself, then around double the size of your total RAM - so around 4gb will be good.
I have 2GBs of RAM and I set the paging file to 2048MBs for initial and maximum size.
No need to set a huge paging file, reliance on virtual memory is not a good thing.. since it's so much slower than RAM. Plus you don't need a large paging file when you have a good amount of RAM.
You can have Windows handle the page file size automatically for you - but if you want to set one for yourself, then around double the size of your total RAM - so around 4gb will be good.TicTac8745
alright, thanks, what are the effects of having the appropriate page file size? Any chance i get better performance in games?
alright so i was wondering what is the optimal page file size for 2 gigs of ram and a hdd of 250gigs (if the hdd matters, i have 173152 gigs of free space). Im also wondering what it really affects and if ill see any performance boost or anything of the like. Thanks in advance.greatmax1
Dude that is frikin sick. Put the page filing at 100k gigs and tell us what happens rofl.
[QUOTE="greatmax1"]alright so i was wondering what is the optimal page file size for 2 gigs of ram and a hdd of 250gigs (if the hdd matters, i have 173152 gigs of free space). Im also wondering what it really affects and if ill see any performance boost or anything of the like. Thanks in advance.wooz101
Dude that is frikin sick. Put the page filing at 100k gigs and tell us what happens rofl. yes i believe i made a mistake here, thanks for letting me know, now can you help and answer my question seriously?
Um. I was being serious. Anyway, I usually set mine like 1 GIG more than it currently is (1GB of patriot memory). I don't know why, but that is how I roll.
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