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No Pagefile? Pagefile on secondary drive (HDD) - would that slow down my system? Fixed Pagefile on SSD? 1GB? 4GB? Prevent read and writes? What is the correct answer? I have seen conflicting answers throughout multiple forums. From what Im seeing, No pagefile is bad, pagefile doesnt make that many big writes/reads to SSD, some people have a fixed size to prevent memory leaks (chrome) creating huge pagefiles. https://www.howtogeek.com/199990/should-i-disable-the-page-file-if-my-computer-has-a-lot-of-ram/ I am a heavy Chrome user, up to 5 windows 10-40 tabs each. I do have multiple VM's that fill my RAM. No content creation, ie; photoshop,video editing. I play a few games here and there (CSGO, Star wars battlefront, planetside 2) I recently had drive controller failure on an SSD and sent it in since it was still under warranty. That is why I am concerned about drive writes. Current Pagefile: 3862MB System: i5 4690k @4.6 OC 16GB DDR3 1866 120SSD running W10Prox64 Multiple other 5400 HDD drives

Thank you all for the suggestions. - I will be adding an old 1TB hard drive. - I plan on over cloaking to 4Ghz or so. -Unless there is a major price vs performance I'd like to stick with Nvidia. - Yes I have already purchased the keyboard and SSD with Windows 10. (Those are not included in budget) - Mostly Minecraft and Virtualization Software. But it would be nice to try out Fallout, Starwars battlefront etc. (I can wait a month on buying the GPU, then I can afford a newer generation.)

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tWPWWZ Any suggestions? I can't go over $750 Hopefully this will last for at least 3 years. Will mostly just have to run Minecraft with shaders but also a little fallout 4, starwars battlefront, csgo all on medium low settings. Thanks in advance, Nathan