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What the heck is virtual RAM?
The good old DownloadMoreRAM. com
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Here is how Google describes it and is pretty accurate and better than what I originally typed out) "A swap file, also known as a page file or paging file, is a temporary storage space on the hard drive used to extend the system's memory capacity when RAM is full. It's where data that is temporarily not in active use is moved to, effectively acting as a virtual extension of RAM. "
Basically your system is cheating by using you HDD or SSD as pretend RAM when needed, but you do lose some functional storage space = to the size of a virtual RAM, regardless if you are using it or not. By telling your OS to use a swap file (or a larger one) you can sometimes get better performance when you have heavy (but not especially rapid) RAM usage. For example large excel files or PDF's may benefit. Probably wouldn't help in gaming unless you had background task taking up a bunch of RAM and the OS was smart enough (questionable) to offload that demand to the SSD while your heavy demanding task enjoyed the real RAM.
You'll find a lot of debate if virtual RAM actually changes things much in reality.
/rant
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