Quick question for people who know PC gaming and hardware a bit better than I do:
I just put enough RAM into my system to max out XP's ability to recognize it (Control Panel's telling me 3.00GB). I've got a dual-core processor and an aging-but-solid 8800GT (512MB) video card. For what it's worth I've also got RAID 0 hard drives.
My question is this: Are there games out there that take particular advantage of my hardware setup? Some games are CPU-intensive and do a lot of calculations, usually for their AI (most notably Sims 2, believe it or not), some games are RAM-intensive but don't really tax the video card much, other games (Crysis leaps to mind) push the video hardware to and past its limits...and of course any game with long load times benefits from faster and/or multiple hard drives.
So which games are which? I'd like to take advantage of my new and improved greater-RAM setup, but which genre would take the best advantage of it?
I just put enough RAM into my system to max out XP's ability to recognize it (Control Panel's telling me 3.00GB). I've got a dual-core processor and an aging-but-solid 8800GT (512MB) video card. For what it's worth I've also got RAID 0 hard drives.
My question is this: Are there games out there that take particular advantage of my hardware setup? Some games are CPU-intensive and do a lot of calculations, usually for their AI (most notably Sims 2, believe it or not), some games are RAM-intensive but don't really tax the video card much, other games (Crysis leaps to mind) push the video hardware to and past its limits...and of course any game with long load times benefits from faster and/or multiple hard drives.
So which games are which? I'd like to take advantage of my new and improved greater-RAM setup, but which genre would take the best advantage of it?
