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post #1 of 12
3/23/05 at 6:33pm
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Greetings all,

I just built a new desktop and have a gig of OC'ed OCZ 3700 Plat. mem... Should I set my page file to 1536/3072, or is that too much, not enough, too wasteful?

Thanks,

Rakewell
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post #2 of 12
3/28/05 at 9:50pm
i like to set my page file so the ram+page file = 2 gigs.. so if i were you i'd set it to 1024-1024..

i wouldn't allow it to change size because then as your hard drive begins to get disoriented the files won't be in the same spots and they'll go all over the place.. much easier just making it the stationary size then using a program like diskeeper to put the page file on the core of the hard drive's platter to keep access times at an absolute minimum.
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post #3 of 12
3/28/05 at 10:13pm
Yeah, keep it one size to prevent it from becoming fragmented.

The rule of thumb I heard was to make it PHYSICAL RAM * 1.5. So if you had 512MB, your page file would be 1536MB; if you had a gig, 3072MB, and so on. When you get up to 2GiGs of physical ram, you dont really need the page file, but since you cant get rid of it, some people just set it to a really low value (not recommended).

The speed differences between the interior of the platter and the exterior of the platter are so minute that moving it to the core doesnt help that much.

EDIT: My arithmatic is off. 1.5 of 512MB is 768MB and 1.5 of a gig is 1536MB.
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post #4 of 12
3/28/05 at 10:26pm
u can get rid of the pagefile...Just set it none...and then find Pagefile.sys and delete it...after the restart has been done, your VM status will be none...and your pagefile will be gone..>i have 2.2 gigs of ramm>>I don't use a pagefile...I find it to be useless at this point.
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post #5 of 12
3/28/05 at 10:37pm
Well, I guess you CAN get rid of it. You might run out of memory and crash your system though, but I seriously doubt that is goin' to happen with 2GiG's of memory.
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post #6 of 12
3/28/05 at 11:09pm
If you do serious gaming, it might be a good idea to have it on though...just for a good measure....At 3 gigs...its fruitless.
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post #7 of 12
3/28/05 at 11:40pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool1Net6
The rule of thumb I heard was to make it PHYSICAL RAM * 1.5. So if you had 512MB, your page file would be 1536MB; if you had a gig, 3072MB, and so on. When you get up to 2GiGs of physical ram, you dont really need the page file, but since you cant get rid of it, some people just set it to a really low value (not recommended).
You may want to check your arithmetic.
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post #8 of 12
3/29/05 at 12:16pm
lol, yea really, there is a big difference between 1.5x and 3x
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post #9 of 12
3/30/05 at 11:19pm
Thanks for catching me on that ActuaryTm. I used the wrong multiplyer. The correct numbers are:

512MB * 1.5 = 768MB
1GB * 1.5 = 1536MB
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post #10 of 12
3/31/05 at 7:00pm
That doesn't seem to all the logical to me though and from personal experience I would have to say that the factor would have to be the higher the less physical RAM you have.
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post #11 of 12
4/8/05 at 7:46pm
Thread Starter 
So...

Does that mean that it would be like this for 1 gig of memory?...

Initial Size: 1536
Max Size: 3072

Thanks,

Rakewell
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post #12 of 12
4/10/05 at 11:58pm
No ... keep the Initial size and Max size the same, or Windows might adjust the size for you and fragment the Page File.
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