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Originally Posted by psicodude
Couldn't agree more.
Just make sure you get the latest driver from the manufacturer site (don't use the CD that comes with the part) and come here for advice on performance tweaks. Some easy ones off the top of my head are - force the pagefile size, make the change in your boot.ini to access the >2gb of ram, turn off automatic updates.
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Don't force the pagefile size. Microsoft has many very smart, highly paid engineers that have invested a lot of time into figuring out how to best use the pagefile. If you are a Windows kernel guru, then optimize away. Otherwise, don't play with the pagefile.
The rest I tend to agree with. Put the /3GB switch in the Boot.ini. This allows your applications to access 3GB of RAM (Otherwise they are limited to 2GB, no matter how much memory you have). Personally I turn off autoupdate just so I can control when it runs, but BITS (background intelligent transfer service) works pretty well and you usually won't even realize it is downloading updates in the background.
And that Corsair PS that BA linked, it is highly regard on many sites I visit.