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Finally got a drive back that i RMA'd, and was wondering what size i should set my pagefile as? It's gonna be on it's own partition so i need to know to decide how big the partition is; my specs are:

Windows Vista Ultimate (64Bit)
Q6600 @ 3Ghz / Noctua-U12P
8GB OCZ PC6400 RAM (C5)
Gigabyte P35-DS4
XFX GTX260 (216Core/2300Mhz)

Thanks!
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ok :)
that's the conclusion i came to after further googling also, i'm gonna let it "manage" on it's own 10gb partition, that should be ok!
 
no, not on it's own partition, that's worse performance..

have it either on the windows partition, or on another drive completely.
 
If you really must tinker with it, put a pagefile on *each* physical drive, and Windows will decide for itself which one to use, depending on each drive's workload at the time.

I seriously doubt you'll notice any difference in practice though, particularly with 8GB of RAM as per your sig.
 
i again with captaincrash, i'd just let windows manage it on the windows drive, if you want another one on another drive, then set that to 'windows managed' too
 
Sorry to butt in but i have Vista 64 on one drive and XP Home on another. Would there be a problem with sticking my XP pagefile on the Vista drive and vice versa? or would it screw things up?
 
ahh ok ty,
and to pastymuncher,
nope i dont think so, as long as the OS's know where their's is meant to be, i doubt it's stupid enough to use the wrong one :p and i cant see it mattering if it did anyway!
 
pastymuncher said:
Sorry to butt in but i have Vista 64 on one drive and XP Home on another. Would there be a problem with sticking my XP pagefile on the Vista drive and vice versa? or would it screw things up?
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I'd never really thought about it, but I don't see why not... Vista/XP dual-boot systems can share a pagefile, so you could presumably have a pagefile on each disk and have either one or both available to each OS.

Give it a whirl and let us know how you get on, but don't blame me if it all goes pear-shaped. :)
 
On 2K/ XP people have had mixed results but moving it to a diff drive or making it smaller if you had 4GB RAM (3.25 on 32bit) had the potential to show better OS disk performance and load times etc.
 
yea, i'm definitely not removing it, that's a silly thing to do,
however i will add one on the other drive, and it can choose which it wants to use (if any).
 
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