Unless you have over 1GB RAM...it boosts your perfomance considerably. If will boost it anyway if you have 1GB RAM but not much.
Do set page file on a different drive other than what windows is installed on;
Right click me computer > Properties > Performance Settings > Advanced > Advanced > Change > Select the drive for page file.
If you have 1GB RAM, then set a custom size of 1536MB.
The Maxline III drive (only in SATA, do you have SATA?) sets you back quite a bit I am afraid;
Link (The decription is wrong on this site, the HDD actually has a 16MB cache)