Since upgrading my system with a new mobo, CPU, and GFX card, most of the games I play (any Source game, Entropia Universe) complain about my Paged Pool Memory being low. Now, I haven't changed the amount of RAM, just improved other things, so I'm not sure how this can happen. Does anybody know what exactly is going on? I've gathered that the standard "fix" would be to buy more RAM, but is there another solution?
PS, my previous system Specs were a Compaq SR2020NX, but with a larger HDD (360GB) and 2GB of RAM, my new system specs are:
CPU - AMD Phenom X3 8750 BE
Card - ASUS EAH4650 (ATI HD 4650)
Mobo - ASUS M4A785-M
2GB DDR2 RAM
450W Power Supply
If you didn't do a clean install of Windows after you upgraded, that is probably the problem. Windows will do its best to reconfigure itself to the new hardware, but the registry will be trashed with old drivers and references to stuff that don't exist anymore.
End result is Windows uses more memory than it should from stuff being loaded when it shouldn't.
I suggest backing your stuff up and doing a fresh Windows install, it will save you money for not having to buy more RAM.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;20892453]If you didn't do a clean install of Windows after you upgraded, that is probably the problem. Windows will do its best to reconfigure itself to the new hardware, but the registry will be trashed with old drivers and references to stuff that don't exist anymore.
End result is Windows uses more memory than it should from stuff being loaded when it shouldn't.
I suggest backing your stuff up and doing a fresh Windows install, it will save you money for not having to buy more RAM.[/QUOTE]
Please don't talk out of your ass.
Paged pool is part of hard disk chosen by user to save things like clipboard. You can simply go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance Setting and change paged pool amount in XP .
[QUOTE=cDash;20898238]Please don't talk out of your ass.
Paged pool is part of hard disk chosen by user to save things like clipboard. You can simply go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance Setting and change paged pool amount in XP .[/QUOTE]
Hahahah, you're retarded.
I'm sorry, but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
[QUOTE=cDash;20898238]Please don't talk out of your ass.
Paged pool is part of hard disk chosen by user to save things like clipboard. You can simply go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance Setting and change paged pool amount in XP .[/QUOTE]
Lol.
Increase the page file size? mine is 10gb
[QUOTE=doonbugie;20899051]Increase the page file size? mine is 10gb[/QUOTE]
Page File and Paged Pool are different.
[QUOTE=Panda X;20900454]Page File and Paged Pool are different.[/QUOTE]
explain please
Page file and swap file are another name for virtual memory. Virtual memory is basically a portion of your hard drive reserved by Windows to load programs when the system is low on physical RAM. Windows normally also loads parts of itself into virtual memory to make available more physical RAM for running applications.
Virtual memory shouldn't be used heavily because it is as slow as the transfer rate on your hard drive, and even slower if you're making heavy use of the drive.
To make a speed comparison, a SATAII hard drive can theoretically peak 375 mb/s (no hard drive is that fast, with the exception of SSDs.) while DDR1-400 can do between 500-1500 mb/s, DDR2-1066 can do between 6000-10,000 MB/s and DDR3 much higher than that.
Paged pool memory is blocks of memory cut up into pages, similar to bank switching. If a page in physical memory isn't being used at the moment, it's transferred to virtual memory to free up physical memory. You can run out of memory pages if you have too many things loaded, which makes since in your case since you have a crippled install of Windows that was bastardized by two subsets of hardware.
Sorry guys
My bad
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;20913043]Page file and swap file are another name for virtual memory. Virtual memory is basically a portion of your hard drive reserved by Windows to load programs when the system is low on physical RAM. Windows normally also loads parts of itself into virtual memory to make available more physical RAM for running applications.
Virtual memory shouldn't be used heavily because it is as slow as the transfer rate on your hard drive, and even slower if you're making heavy use of the drive.
To make a speed comparison, a SATAII hard drive can theoretically peak 375 mb/s (no hard drive is that fast, with the exception of SSDs.) while DDR1-400 can do between 500-1500 mb/s, DDR2-1066 can do between 6000-10,000 MB/s and DDR3 much higher than that.
Paged pool memory is blocks of memory cut up into pages, similar to bank switching. If a page in physical memory isn't being used at the moment, it's transferred to virtual memory to free up physical memory. You can run out of memory pages if you have too many things loaded, which makes since in your case since you have a crippled install of Windows that was bastardized by two subsets of hardware.[/QUOTE]
Thnx
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