You just made my argument for me.

Cats.

phht.

Despite the mask, Smedley (aka "The curmudgeon of the cul-de-sac") is caught polluting the atmosphere in SC... creating "Dusty Faces, Polluted Places".

Also a good time to make sure all those little fans are actually still spinning if you don't have software rpm monitors on any of them.  (Don't go sticking anything in there while the machine is plugged in though... )

If you have an UPS you'll likely NEED Hibernation [I do]...and the hiberfil.sys is 9 gig.

I have the page limited to 3 gig.  It's apparently preferred to be on the sys drive [the quicker one].

Leaves me with 4/5ths of eff-al left in 60gig....so my next one will be 256 ..... that way I can also dump all my FSX scenery files, etc on and reduce some stutter.

Removing bottlenecks always shows up more.  The GTX590 isn't one...but drive reading is....

jafo, having the page file on a platter drive does no harm. with the amount of ram you have, you'll notice no difference having the page file on a drive other than the sys drive. also, i have a UPS and hibernation isn't needed here.

speaking of your 590, i just got off the phone with a guy who is buying a rig that is the best one i've built yet. intel i7-2700K, 32 gigs of corsair vengenace ram, 240 gig corsair force gt ssd, 2 wd black 2 tb hdd's, corsair obsidian 800D case, asus maximus iv Z68 mobo, corsair H80 cooler, and 2 radeon 7970 vid cards. that's going to be one fun rig to build.  $3950 worth of fun.

he bought one from Cyberpower in December. they're supposedly one of the better online companies to buy custom rigs from but if his rig was an example of their work, they aren't that good. his rig wouldn't power on when he took delivery. plus, they charged him $100 for a "custom wiring" job that looked like a 5 year old kid did. he sent it back and got all his money returned except the $100 wiring fee.

I need to clean my PC sometime soon. I don't remember the last time I actually opened it. I think it was January or Feburary in 2011. Man I wonder how much dust has accluminated in there.

Mine needs it though...

If I dump all my FSX onto the C I expect to see performance improvement [as people whine it even MUST be defragged]....but that's about 100 gig at the moment [I have 'one or two' planes] ...

My UPS died recently, but I've used them since the late '90s. They're irrelevant in why I use the sleep/suspend/hibernate/calm-down-and-wait-til-i'm-back features.

Please explain why/how disabling the nap-time functionality is part of keeping a clean rig. 

It's not.

It's what you need to consider when your 'C' drive is only 60gig.

My use of Hiberfil is for 'safe' shutdowns without data corruption in a black-out/brown-out.... not for some snooze capability...

...and protection from spikes...

what jafo said!

Thanks, gents.