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I was checking my temps using MSI afterburner and I saw that there was a Pagefile usage on the monitor and it is currently 8140 MB used out of 8192 MB. Is this going to be an issue in games? This seems like it is at its limit. But I am not sure what this GPU pagefile thing is. 

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I was checking my temps using MSI afterburner and I saw that there was a Pagefile usage on the monitor and it is currently 8140 MB used out of 8192 MB. Is this going to be an issue in games? This seems like it is at its limit. But I am not sure what this GPU pagefile thing is. 

The Pagefile is for the system. MSI Afterburner now has the ability to monitor various things, including RAM usage, Pagefile usage, CPU usage, etc.

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8gbs is normal, how much ram is your system, it increases as needed

I have 16 gb

[CPU] i7 4790K OC [CPU Cooler] H100i [GPU] Evga GTX 980 SuperClocked [Ram] Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 1866 mhz [PSU] Cooler Master 1000w Silent Pro [storage] 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro, 1TB Seagate SSHD, 1 TB WD Blue 4 TB Seagate Nas. [Motherboard] Msi Z97 Gaming 5 [Case] Phantom 410 Red [sound] Onboard ALC 1150 [Headphones] Sennheiser HD 558 [Keyboard] Razer BlackWidow Chroma  [Mouse] Razer Deathadder Chroma [Mouse] Razer FireFly [Monitor] Asus MG278Q

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8gbs is normal, how much ram is your system, it increases as needed

Is maxing out the page file bad for the system?

[CPU] i7 4790K OC [CPU Cooler] H100i [GPU] Evga GTX 980 SuperClocked [Ram] Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 1866 mhz [PSU] Cooler Master 1000w Silent Pro [storage] 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro, 1TB Seagate SSHD, 1 TB WD Blue 4 TB Seagate Nas. [Motherboard] Msi Z97 Gaming 5 [Case] Phantom 410 Red [sound] Onboard ALC 1150 [Headphones] Sennheiser HD 558 [Keyboard] Razer BlackWidow Chroma  [Mouse] Razer Deathadder Chroma [Mouse] Razer FireFly [Monitor] Asus MG278Q

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Is maxing out the page file bad for the system?

no, if you try and max it will get bigger, its like back up ram, if u didnt have it your system would crash on certain things

 http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

 

 

 

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