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    Quote Originally Posted by ua549 View Post
    I have 16GB of memory and am considering adding another 16GB. My system can handle 64GB.

    The amount you need depends entirely on what you are doing.
    Are you running out of memory?
    Is your page file being used excessively? (Some use is normal.)
    The only drawback to having too much memory is that you've wasted money.
    What do you do that uses that much memory? I only have 4 gigs and I never run out of room even playing the new games.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timman_24 View Post
    What do you do that uses that much memory? I only have 4 gigs and I never run out of room even playing the new games.
    Both Shogun and Empire Total War will flat out crap out on 4gb RAM. I've seen Shogun consume 8 gigs with large armies in use. Since it is a PC exclusive, the developers wrote it to take advantage of large amounts of RAM and to use multithreading. Granted that most XBox ports will only use 2 gigs.
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