Using Page Files + Ready Boost - How can I do it effectively?

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I have an old PC with the following:

CPU: Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 integrated graphics (256 MB)
RAM: 1.5 GB
HDD: 80 GB
Windows 7

So, I dedicated a 16 GB partition to page files. I had formatted it to ntfs file system. And I have an 8GB pen drive dedicated to ReadyBoost (exFat file system).

Now my question is, what file system should I format my partition to run it at the fastest speed.

Also, will creating multiple partitions (like 4 x 4GB) for paging help over a single 16 GB partition?

Thanks!
 
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UPDATE:

I have removed that 16GB partition and created 2 partitions of 8GB each.

One is primary and the other is logical (windows can support only upto 3 primary partitions I suppose).

I have created the cluster unit size of the primary partition to 4096 bytes and for the logical it is 8192 bytes (I suppose logical ones offer a bit less speed than primary. So, 8192 cluster size should reduce the search time).

ABOUT THE PAGE FILE SIZE: I have kept the minimum size to 1913 MB (recommended by Windows) and maximum to 8 GB.

Also I have rolled my video driver back to windows 7 default. Ironically, the 2010 driver of ATI had problems and the windows 7 version of that (2008 version of ATI) is running smoothly. I don't understand how!

And, now it is working much more smoothly, along with aero theme. Only drawback is, when I use chrome, at 1152 x 864 res. it lags a bit when I drag the page up and down and also when I select text. For the rest, I like the new performance.

I want to learn more about working with the cluster size. If I do decent gaming and web browsing and some amount of video / audio editing, what kind of cluster size should I have? And does the page file thing store the temp data under one file (pagefile.sys) or does it also create smaller files according to the cluster size?
 
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