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TitusCicero · 08-04-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ferg

If you really have this much of a page file on an old IDE drive this may be the clincher, Try disabling the page file all together and then run the tests again.

Hacking Vista: Optimize Core OS Components: Tweaking the Paging File

Total Virtual Memory 8.21 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.12 GB
Page File Space 4.29 GB

Thanks for the tip. I will try it out.

Does the old ATA IDE drives effect the benchmarking that much? I was concerned about using the old drives but didn't want to spend the extra $300 or so on new SATA drives cuz I have like 350gb of old drives and would hate to loose them right now. Well, frankly, I don't see the cost benefit with 4gb of RAM cuz once the loading is done it shouldn't affect apps and games all that much, right?

THanks again.

EDIT: Read your article and disabled the pagefile but yet cannot test because I am remotely connected through work. WIll retry when I get home. Thanks