So the latest adventure started with checking out how my computer was using ram memory is executing 3D intensive graphics tasks which benchmarked rather poorly as per Performance Test benchmark

I run the benchmark graphics test components and watched memory usage in real time using freeware System Explorer 

what ? only 28% of system memory being used and still 228MB paged out in virtual memory space on the ssd ? 

( high speed storage used in support of computer oparations and tasks =  ram memory + memory storage in the form of a dedicated file  on the disk drive,( page file) .  the former fast , the latter relatively slow)

From my observations did not seem optimal 

So what to do ? well maybe trick the app into loading paged out parts of it programming onto high speed ram memory, rather than the lower speed page file on the ssd

sort of a high speed virtual memory - a page file located in ram memory 

With extra ram memory now available and usage about half , a ram disk might be worth a try

A ramdisk creates storage space functionally the same as a conventional disk drive most are familar with, but in ram memory space ( but stored data is erased when the computer is shut down) 

But this is ideal for creating an additional page file , which can be user configured within Windows via control panel

A good thing is that Windows will tend to use the fastest page file accessable first - so will favour the ram drive page file , once it loads ( will not speed up start up , does tend to slow down start up a little as it takes time to load as is a start up configured app) 

Anyhow I found a inept owner friendly ramdisk app , freeware AMD Radeon Ramdisk 

Settled on creating a approx 1.2GB ram disk , and then 1GB volume ( displays as a drive in Windows explorer )

8GB total installed ram memory - normal max usage about 4GB - max shared system memory 1.6GB - Windows elbow room 1GB  

Configured to start at computer start

so the results - did not make any difference to the benchmarks results - 3D rating remained lamentatable

However did wake up time to complete security scanning of files by 30% faster  and web browsing using Edge browser is much more snappier now 

So for my normal usage and desired computer performance has been a good improvement

( Another unexpected delight has been quicker duration in shutting down now - and i suppose less wearing of the ssd for longer life)