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Processor | Ryzen 7 2700X |
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Motherboard | MSI B450 Carbon AC |
Cooling | Wraith Spire, Scythe Kaze Flex *3 |
Memory | G.Skill Ripjaws V, F4-3200C16D-16GVKB |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Pulse |
Storage | WDS250G2X0C, WD20EZRZ, WD20EARX, ST2000LX001, ASUS BW-16D1HT |
Display(s) | Dell U2412M |
Case | SAMA Full Tower Black Fish |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek ALC1220 |
Power Supply | Seasonic M12 II Bronze Evo Edition 520W |
Mouse | Razer DeathAdder Elite |
Keyboard | CoolerMaster Masterkeys PRO M |
Software | Windows 10 Pro |
Well, unless you changed the defaults - and there's no reason to - you don't need to remember because Windows automatically defrags hard drives regularly anyway.
Yes, it is set to weekly by default.
I did not notice it, because I rarely leave my computer powered on while away for longer time, or this defragmenation appear in background in not so agressive way so you don't notice perfomance issues. Sometimes I noticed some of my disk drives working in background for no apparent reason, maybe is this some kind of occasional defragmention process.
One of the reasons I don't like defragmentation is because it wears out hard drive moving parts but today's defragmentation tools are propably more optimized I presume.
As you know NTFS and some protocols like NCQ is making fragmentation on mechanical drives less of a problem.
Well, here we go. You have issues either with your RAM modules (running memtest86 for a few hours is always a good idea) or GPU, or GPU drivers or some broken Windows drivers. Your issues have nothing to do with the pagefile or its size.
I bought MemTest Pro Deluxe especially for this reason and I recommend it to everyone, because MemTest86 although free, it is not that good as I thought because it did not show any errors while MemTest Pro Deluxe did. And my memory passed memory test, same with CPU, GPU etc.
I know that B350 and B450 chipsets and Zen/+ CPU officially don't support 3200Mhz DDR4 as Zen2. And I've had issues running G.Skill Ripjaws V (they are tested and recommended for Intel) with Asus B350 TUF at 3200 MhZ but all is well with MSI B450 Carbon AC motherboard sans issue with v16 UEFI and current state of click BIOS(GSE-Lite) thanks to bloated AMD AGESA.
3200 Mhz is sweet spot for Ryzen CPUs.
I have never in my entire life seen any "black screens" in Windows.
Neither I, except BSOD or when having custom pagefile I get black screen. Beside pagefile, maybe it got something to do with Radeon drivers well known for having problems. I never got problems with GeForce drivers.
I wonder how many people in this thread mix up RAM/pagefile issues with something else entirely. Probably most if not all.
If some of my problems no longer appear after I changed from custom to automatic pagefile it is logical to presume it got something to do with pagefile.