My 2 cents:
"just over 17gb pagefile"
6*8 = 48

can you make one pagefile of at least 32 gb ?
I would say that if 5 work well with 17, 6 will work with 20 if you can't make it 32.
pagefile means dick, come back with something better, my rigs all run 8gb ram anything over 17gb pagefile is pointless, if that were needed I would have seen the same issue with the rx 480's I have from the same company. now if I were running rigs with 4gb ram sure I could see that, but I'm not. fact is more RAM you have the less you need a pagefile. pc's use mobo ram before pagefile. as it stands 8gb ram + 17gb pagefile is 25gb of memory the gpus can allocate, so please why don't you explain where a 32gb pagefile is going go have ANY affect in this very specific situation? look folks I'm not looking for your danm 2 cents, most/all of the common things ive tried some many times over just to check. if you don't have information that is of some rarity then it needs not to be mentioned, not to sound like an ass here but I'm looking for specific information and not just the everyday stuff.
thanks crypto