Personally I feel if your not gaming ,or multitasking ,why do you need more that 512 MB ram? as far as the page file , once again , if your not gaming , either let windows adjust , or as PHP states! Correct me if I'm wrong , this is more or less simply put a swap file , in which slows , or is a bottleneck. I say if you think you need more ram .....do it! not page , unless your gaming and need more memory than your board will handle. just an opinion