OK, I built me a system last year and went for broke installing 1.5GB of DDR-2700 RAM so as to avoid any memory shortage and hopefully boost performance.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding something (I am all self-taught, mostly through the school of hard knocks and crashed systems), but I am not happy that I always have about 1.oGB of RAM available.
Seems to me that while it is good to have plenty of RAM in reserve, there is alot of RAM in my system that is not being put to work. To me this is an opportunity for improved performance as well as CASH sitting there doing nothing!
Am I off-track here, or is there some way to make Windows XP use more of my available RAM? And will that improve performance as I expect? I assume this is somewhat related to 'pagefiles' and 'virtual memory'?
Any comments, ideas, web-links, suggestions?
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