Can i box with this comp ?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I hate to chime in on the whole pagefile thing but it is worth noting that no pagefile will probably work GREAT! Right up to the point where it doesn't. If you end up with weird crashes or bluescreens, you might end up having a hard time debugging what's going on. "Out Of Memory" (OOM) errors tend to be extremely erratic/intermittent. You'll notice that pretty much everyone in this thread commenting on this is saying there are caveats to running without a pagefile. There's a reason for that.

Running without a pagefile is somewhat similar to overclocking your 3.6GHz CPU to 3.8GHz -- 99% of the time it won't be an issue but 1% of the time you're basically screwed. If you're willing to accept potential problems, go for it! I'd definitely recommend keeping your backups up-to-date, though, if for no other reason that it is Just Good Policy(tm).

[heyaz]

The only thing I've ever gotten (when overdoing it with VMware) was a dialog in Windows warning I was running out of RAM - and you have plenty of time to fix the issue, it's nowhere near a crash. No blue screens, crashes, or anything like that. It's hard to believe I just got lucky and never experienced the 1% on so many different machines running different software over many years. You still have control of what's running and when you're overextending your machine.

A server, on the other hand, is a different story. Unexpected server load and the like, on machines that aren't run as desktops, now that could go south very quickly. I'd never run without a page file.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

and you have plenty of time to fix the issue, it's nowhere near a crash. No blue screens, crashes, or anything like that. It's hard to believe I just got lucky and never experienced the 1% on so many different machines running different software over many years.

Your sample size is small enough to make it purely anecdotal (not that you ever asserted anything else), plus I would suspect you're kinda like a bunch of us here in that you're aware and savvy enough to work through any edge cases you run into. I tested various pagefile setups for and with the top two PC OEMs for about 10 years. You wouldn't believe how many oddball edge cases we ran into when the pagefile was either missing or too small. Granted, we're talking about machines that were always running an optimal memory size (read "least amount of memory we can get away with") for the configurations (I was working with small & medium business units) whereas you and most of the rest of us these days are running WAY more RAM than just about anything we do will use.