What is the best pagefile for a gaming PC with Windows 7 64bit and 8GB??

GTO656 · 31 Oct 2011 at 19:36

Hey guys whats the best amount of page file for my windows 7 64bit with 8GB RAM??

Currently its using the full 8190GB as I've just checked.

thanks

ben1977 · 31 Oct 2011 at 19:39

i needed to get 8GB's of ram for bf3, from 4GB's

with the game running im using over 4GB's

GTO656 · 31 Oct 2011 at 20:26

ben1977 said:
i needed to get 8GB's of ram for bf3, from 4GB's

with the game running im using over 4GB's

Nt planning 2 play BF3, thx any way but can any1 answer my question?

andy_mk3 · 31 Oct 2011 at 20:28

Leave it to windows to sort it out.

GTO656 · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:17

andy_mk3 said:
Leave it to windows to sort it out.[/

Thxs so i leave it as it is?

cheers

andy_mk3 · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:18

Yup, windows manages the pagefile perfectly fine by itself, no need to fiddle unless you have an SSD & 8GB+ Ram really.

GTO656 · 31 Oct 2011 at 22:14

andy_mk3 said:
Yup, windows manages the pagefile perfectly fine by itself, no need to fiddle unless you have an SSD & 8GB+ Ram really.

Kk, I'll leave it as it is

cheers

mrk · 1 Nov 2011 at 13:33

Yup leave as is unless you've got insane RAM number, mine is set to 1GB as I have 16GB RAM and I didn't fancy Windows allocating so much HD space just for paging when it's never going to be needed.

paradigm · 1 Nov 2011 at 13:50

mrk said:
Yup leave as is unless you've got insane RAM number, mine is set to 1GB as I have 16GB RAM and I didn't fancy Windows allocating so much HD space just for paging when it's never going to be needed.

Never going to be needed?

You do realise that Windows doesn't only use paging when there is little physical RAM left?

Get it back to automatic.

mrk · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:07

Yes I do know that but it will never use 10GB+ of Pagefile.

When you have 16GB of RAM Windows sets aside +16GB of drive space. In this scenario, it isn't really the best option to leave it on auto. It also means my drive image backups are 15GB smaller each week.

paradigm · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:16

So just set it to be on a drive of its own and don't take images of that disk?

Personally, I just leave it be (with 12GB of RAM), but then I'm really not that bothered about having a large page file, as imaging disks is a really terrible way of performing a backup.

mrk · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:27

I do incremental backups of data drives and image backups of OS drives. There is no such thing as a "terrible" way of backing up in this instance, you backup what suits your needs best, this way works for me best. I can quickly restore the image on to a new disk should the OS disk fail and not have to reconfigure a single thing or I can mount the VHD to pull off data should something go missing on the source OS disk, it is the best of both worlds.

As does the way I have it configured.

Burnsy2023 · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:29

mrk said:
Yes I do know that but it will never use 10GB+ of Pagefile.

When that completely depends on your usage. You can't say that unless you know how the machine is used.

mrk · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:44

Indeed but my own machine I do

Hairybudda · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:56

Stick it on another drive on another interface if possible and let windows handle the size. Sure, chances are you'll never 'need' to page stuff away but you're best letting windows do what it wants because it's better at managing these things than your average user is.

ChrisD. · 1 Nov 2011 at 15:05

Just to jump in, should my page file be on my SSD or storage drive?

Burnsy2023 · 1 Nov 2011 at 15:10

MilanoChris said:
Just to jump in, should my page file be on my SSD or storage drive?

Ideally SSD, due to the small I/O operations.

Burnsy2023 · 1 Nov 2011 at 15:11

mrk said:
Indeed but my own machine I do

Sorry, I missed some of your posts. Ignore me

Dirk · 1 Nov 2011 at 15:14

andy_mk3 said:
Yup, windows manages the pagefile perfectly fine by itself, no need to fiddle unless you have an SSD & 8GB+ Ram really.

No need to fiddle even if you have an SSD or 8GB+ RAM.

ChrisD. · 1 Nov 2011 at 16:17

Burnsy2023 said:
Ideally SSD, due to the small I/O operations.

Okay thanks.