Can i box with this comp ?

[heyaz]

Don't tell people to disable the Page File when you have no idea what programs they use on their computer. It's not that big of a deal to shrink it to the minimal 800MB that Windows 7 wants.

Whoa, yes sir!

I've been going with zero page file on every machine I own with 8GB RAM or more for years, running everything from seven wow clients, to VMware, to Office, to enterprise software that wants 32GB ram, to video/photo editing, to GPU accelerated cryptanalysis software, and so on. I didn't just throw that out there because I read it on a forum, I've tested it extensively and never had a problem. Windows has a habit of paging very early, long before you are anywhere near out of RAM, like the old days before hard drives got silent and you could hear them crunching. That simple tweak is the single largest boost of performance I've ever been able to get out of a Windows machine, followed by an SSD of course.

I think the paging/swap system still exists only because people are still running machines with 2GB or less RAM, and they still sell brand new machines with 4GB or less. If you have more RAM, it's just hurting your performance. I've found with most programs if you are utilizing more than your 12-24GB of RAM all at once and need swap space, you're going to be exhausting other resources anyway, or you're doing something wrong (trying to run a dozen VMs at once and expecting them to be usable). Or running Firefox and its plugin container, the world's most popular memory leaks, with 50-100 tabs at once.