Page file?

[FMod]

You missed what I was meaning. I was not saying that the SSD would bottleneck, but rather that the speed of the RAM, Processor, or connection method would likely hit a limit sooner unless you've spent a silly amount of money on a system for those few instances where you would actually need that much power. It's like owning a Ferrari when you live in the middle of New York. Sure it might go fast, but there aren't many natural situations where that speed can actually be used.

True. Most SSD can handle full home load with capacity to spare. That's why there's no need to offload anything. Doesn't even matter if OS and games are on separate SSD or the same one, they multitask very well.

 

But it's not really that a modern CPU+RAM+connection (particularly not PCI-E) on a home PC are so weak that they would bottleneck first. Quad-core Nehalems and SB are very powerful, easily capable of handling much more workload, and DDR3 RAM is even more overprovisioned. What bottlenecks is the software. It's not parallelized enough, not performance-oriented enough, and often just not doing all that demanding a job, to take full advantage of SSD IOPS throughput. A server with a lousy Celeron CPU will easily overload four consumer SSD, even one of which a 3960X wouldn't come close to using up at home.

 

In other words - you won't get to make use of a Ferrari in NYC, driving as an average citizen does... but if you're a chase cop, you will have times when it's helpful even in NYC.

[Deleted809848User]

Well guys I set my page file to 2000mb to 4095 is that good?

 

BTW I have a 1tb seagate HDD SATA and yes all I use this rig for is gaming.

Edited October 5, 2012 by Guest

[FMod]

No, on a hard drive, always use a fixed size, minimum=maximum. Set it to 4096 min, 4096 max then.

[davycrockett]

here this is what the horse says

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory