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Originally Posted by Munku
Can someone tell me the max windows xp allows and what I should set mine at?
p4 2.0 ghz
1024 megs ram.
Is there any reason why I shouldn't go beyond 2x my physical ram? Why not 4 gigs?
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I'm not sure what the maximum size is in XP, but the reason you might not want a larger one is that it will take up that much disk space - so having a 4 gig page file means you have 4 gigs less of HDD space.
The old answer used to be 2x your system memory, but these days with the amount of RAM people have, page files have become less important - you're probably going to fit everything you need into 1 gig of memory, and if you don't you're probably not going to need another 2 gigs on top of that.
In any case, for gaming you want to avoid use of the page file if at all possible - HDD access is, of course, a lot slower than RAM access.
Bingle