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What to do when adding new ram?

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trendx

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I just replaced my old x2 sticks of 512 with x2 sticks of 1GB, is there anything i should change in windows etc? I am already going to run memtest 86+ but wanted to know what else i should do.

trend
 
If you use a fixed pagefile, MS recommends that you set it to at least 1.5 times your physical RAM. Other than that, you shouldn't have to make any other changes.

Plenty of folks don't follow the recomendation, btw, and it rarely seems to be a problem.
 
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