SteveM

Brink,

Thanks for the reply.
SATA is a 500gig WD drive and boots the OS.
IDE is a Hitachi 160gig (and your are indeed correct) its slave to the DVD drive, and should be master.
Have put VM on the IDE yesterday or the day before, (staying up to late on these damm forums, the days are running to nights and .......), still boot a few time since and run Bioshock a fair bit and to tell you the truth forgot that IDE held VM. Have seen no disadvantages YET !

But, when at SUN through Unix I could tell which ever CPU I chose, and often had 6 or more to choose from, to run what ever task I chose. I know you can not do this under Vista. My point is that the OS was built to take advantage of multiple CPU's and on that thought I will further investigate Vista's multiprocessing capabilities. (that should keep me busy for a couple of weeks).
Question ?
What tests do you think wouuld show performace on where the VM is.
Thought, maybe I need to reduce phisical memory down to 1gig or even 1/2 a gig so that the use of VM takes up a lot of system process time ! Then run a intense system task. hmm need a script, copy memory to disk then copy all back to mem but it would be VM then. Sorry waffeling now.

Thanks SteveM.