vacs wrote on Apr 29, 2014, 14:00:Totally disagree.
8GB is the correct answer, agreed. The question was way too easy
But again, as it has been mentioned at least 24937 times before, do NOT disable the pagefile, not even with 512GB of RAM!
There is a reason for this file to exist on Windows machines, keep it enabled!
The pagefile does more than only swap out data which doesn't fit into your RAM.True, windows does lots of legacy operations on data in RAM and puts data out to page regardless if you have the room in ram. They think if it ain't broke, reuse it... so old ways of dealing with RAM are still at work.
It also untrue that the pagefile will slow down your system if you have plenty of RAM.I know from experience that it is in fact true. Thankfully I don't have to because someone else did
Shineyguy wrote on Apr 29, 2014, 13:19:
This is true. I've been waiting to replace my 4x4gb sticks that I got for $100 a couple years ago with a 2x8gb setup, but the prices are hovering around $30-$50 more than what I bought my current setup for.
BTW, with 16GB of memory, I've turned off my paging file and have had no ill effect whatsoever on my system.
Pigeon wrote on Apr 29, 2014, 10:31:
What they fail to mention in the conclusion of the ram article is the decent improvements in load times. 4GBs is fine, but with ram so cheap might as well go 8GBs for another ~$30. I mean for game performance the order is GPU>CPU>SSD>RAM, but if you just want to shorten loading screens or smooth out area transitions (an MMO issue), on the cheap, more ram isn't a bad idea.