Since I got my laptop, I have gone from 1 gig to 2 gigs of RAM - specifically, Mushkin DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820146440
We all know that RAM is much faster than paging data to the hard drive for virtual memory, but would it work better to completely turn off the page file? I know some program require it, but what would be the lowest possible setting to use that wouldn't be detrimental? I don't want to have the standard 3 gigabyte (recommended 1.5x amount of ram), and right now I have a 512 meg file. I turned it off completely once, and my computer *seemed* to run slower, it may or may not have.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820146440
We all know that RAM is much faster than paging data to the hard drive for virtual memory, but would it work better to completely turn off the page file? I know some program require it, but what would be the lowest possible setting to use that wouldn't be detrimental? I don't want to have the standard 3 gigabyte (recommended 1.5x amount of ram), and right now I have a 512 meg file. I turned it off completely once, and my computer *seemed* to run slower, it may or may not have.