AOMX: RAM Taker
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AOMX: RAM Taker
Well, I was playing Age Of Mythology's Expansion pack with 12 players in single player. After about an hour (in which I had armies from 200 to 300 men), I noticed my game was slowing down. It couldn't have been my CPU or my video card, for they are extremely fast. Then I noticed that straining glare coming from my hard drive light. I went into Windows and sure enough, I was using 1.17GB of RAM. I only had 1GB of RAM so the other 174MB was coming from my hard drive. The game was using a whopping 777MB of my RAM. I think I know what I want for Christmas 2005: a RAM upgrade. I think I might just get 2 1GB PC-3200s and give my 2 512MB PC-3200 to my Athlon 64 2800 system. I guess the RAM standard has moved again. I recommend that gamers focus on getting 1.5GB-2GB of RAM. 2GB should be the safe spot for some time.
Athlon XP 3200 3DMark05 Score: 3460
GeForce 6600 GT 3DMark05 Score: 3132
14304 SETI Results:
Athlon 64 2800
Athlon XP 3200
Athlon XP 2100
Athlon XP 1800
Pentium 3 Celeron 667MHz
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