How to use SSD as RAM in Windows 8.1

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I have 32gb ram on windows 8.1 x64, and am looking to supplement it by tying in an SSD. I'm aware of the plentiful pitfalls (slow, hard on SSD, etc) but have a short term application that wants a lot more than my 32gb. I have a 256gb 850 evo on hand and would like to use this to 'max out' my system ram (128gb total), since buying a bunch of 32gb ram sticks is super expensive. Any suggestions on how to implement this would be greatly appreciated.
 

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Would a generic program overflow crash when trying to utilize more than the 32gb? Or does the OS treat the page file as 'extra ram' and pass data to it that would normally get loaded into dram?