if reliability is an issue, I mean, if - say - you largely use the PC to browse internet with one of the basilisk releases (that tend to use a lot of RAM) you won't have any inconvenience if - say - once a week you get a BSOD.
The reported experiences (with this or that patch) is often a reduced stability of the system, though there are reports that signal no issues whatsoever, my personal opinion is that it greatly (entirely) depends on the actual hardware involved (and the related drivers), so it is a matter of "luck" more than anything else. The good MS guys disabled PAE in XP while they kept it in Server 2003 and the reason was that they found a number of third party drivers that had issues, whilst - again according to them - hardware used on 2003 Server tended to be bettr wuality and have better drivers. The least intrusive approach is using Gavotte's Ramdisk for *temp* directories, and similar (but I believe you can put a pagefile on it if you really-really want to).Ībout a) it is not really a good idea due to the instability that may well come from it.
The usage of otherwise inaccessible RAM is a particular case where it may make some sense, but it remains (IMHO) not particularly valid, as the pagefile with a 3 or 3.2 GB of normally accessible RAM is rarely enough hit in normal operation. Yes, putting the pagefile on a RAM disk is ridiculous.