I can't help but we have similar set ups. I also have 2005 Standard Edition with SP2 on windows 2003 Enterprise with SP2 on 32bit. We have 8GB...

We are x86 so no issues there. Thanks for the info on the sockets vs. cores. That's good to know. The next thing I think I need...

In Management studio memory is minimum 4096MB and MAX 6400MB

I just read that SQL 2005 Standard only supports 4 CPUs!

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/compare-features.aspx

We have two quadcore Xeon e5410 @ 2.33GHz. What happens when you try and run standard 2005 with more...

Thanks everyone I really appreciate the community! When I say overall sluggishness I mean navigating around on the machine AND user experience. I sat down with a user...

I see... a memory leak will cause the system to page. This makes sense. Thanks

I'm sorry I didn't mention that clearly. Task manager is showing 7.85 GB page file usage and I can't figure what process is causing it.