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Hello all, I am fairly new to building pc's and delving into tweaking/enhancing and altering performance.
I would first and foremost like to solve or know what advanced settings to use for performance and virtual memory. Specs of build are as follows, if it helps:
-Asus Z87-Pro Mobo
-Intel i7-4770k 3.5Ghz standard, no overclock
-Ocz Modstream pro 700 Watt PSU
-16 GB Ram (2x8 Corsair Vengeance)
-OS, most programs and games on Samsung 840 pro 128GB SSD
-Storage/ anything else on WD 1TB HDD
I had recently messed around with previous settings of virtual memory and changed some things around to maximize space on SSD, just wanting to know if setting high/low min/max effects frames in games and what in general I should use. Should I set no paging on both, some on one and none on another, or something altogether different? Any help would be very much appreciated.
 
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Virtual memory uses hard disk space when RAM becomes full, it's not really used anymore by software, so disable it. From what I can gather, only a few programs use it at all. I've read that some versions of photoshop require it, but I've also seen this point argued and have no personal experience of it (or any other programs that use it). Back when it came out, RAM sticks were tiny compared to today's, so it was beneficial for memory intensive software.

As a side point, gaming won't use more than 8GB of ram or multi threading, on any setting. If you want to max out games, you need a dedicated GPU (or even to play many games). If you intend to optimize your build for gaming, get two sticks of 4GB RAM and insert them into the slots recommended in your Motherboard's manual. Since you won't be using the full capacity of each 8GB stick in games, you'll see better results by switching to 4GB sticks as they tend to have much closer timings. 16GB Ram will become useful in other applications though, such as media creation and manipulation software (which will also benefit from the multi-threading i7 CPU). 2GB RAM sticks have better timings again but since you are using a dual channel motherboard, you run the risk of choking on too little RAM with 2x2GB, or needlessly stressing your memory controller with 4x2GB. Plenty more on that by googling though...

Also seems pointless not to OC a K series chip when you have a fully OC capable Rig.
 
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