Jeff Iannucci adds on to tempdb configuration advice:
Step 1: Provision a separate drive. Put your TempDB away from your precious user data files, as well as the other system databases. This probably isn’t your job, so ask your friends on your infrastructure team to provision and mount a T: drive or whatever of a size that you gauge appropriately. What’s appropriate? Hey, I don’t know your system – that’s why they pay you the big bucks, friend.
Read on for the full set of tips.