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HP 4706c freezing up - Need upgrade suggestions

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Hello

I have an HP 4706c pavillion with:
- Mobo-Asus M2N68-LA (Narra3)
- CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
- RAM - 3Gb Speed: PC2-6400 MB/sec
- 300W PSU
- GPU - Radeon HD4650 (I think - the ATI app
reports a 4600 series with 512MbDDR3)
I am having Company of Hereos freeze up - audio continues
but no video change. I am using medium type
settings on the video options.

The windows performance tool says I use a consistent 90% of memory.
CPU & page faults seem reasonable.

Do you all think this freezing is due to a memory constraint or something else?
If you had to spend either $100 or $200 what you recommend I upgrade?

I always deeply appreciate the gift of good insight on
forums like this - thanks in advance

Larry

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CPUs Expert

Welcome, Newcomer. If you're using Vista/7, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab. Click on the Resource Monitor button.
Find out what the biggest RAM consuming app is.

90% RAM usage is very high. At idle, Windows uses ~5-10%, depending on things like the version of OS; pre-installed software (from prebuilt systems); system services; etc. Given this scenario, a RAM upgrade might be in order, but if you're using a 32-bit OS, 3GB - 3.75GB is the max usable.

Thanks for the answer. I ratched down the video quality on Company of Heroes and its now ok. However, it sure seems like I had to throttle it back alot for my card capacity. What features of graphics - anti-aliasing, shadows etc use more CPU and which use more of the GPU?
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