New PC build

[St1ckM4n]

Trust me, Windows uses more than 4GB. Here's a thread about my work laptop.

I won't go into too much detail... but: The swap file is used in addition to, not in replacement of, RAM. It's a feature of OS design overall and Windows is invested in it. Through personal experiences and lots of reading (I have B.I.T. too), I can tell you the swap file is a good thing.

The general advice is that it should be twice your RAM. But with 16GB RAM, a 25GB max size should be plenty.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Switching the swap file off indeed had no effect at all. But then again, 60GB of a useless swap file is utterly pointless also, so I'm leaving it switched off.

I currently have my pagfile disabled and only have 8GB of memory. However if you did decide to run paging with 32GB of memory, you don't have to use a pagfile 60GB in size. Set your pagefile at 8GB or maybe even 16GB and be done with it. If I was to enable paging again, I'd set my pagefile to 1GB and if Windows needs more paging space the size will be adjusted to meet the requirements. However with paging turned off, Windows will not have access to changing the size as needed.

 

[Burty117]

Hi VitalyT, I was wondering how the Wireless Card is going? I was planning on purchasing it in our house hold for a PC upstairs and we have a Netgear R6300 which does 801.11AC, I was wondering if you've had any more luck on the driver front?