how much is too much

would 1gb of mushkin pc3500 lvl2 be overkill for just gaming/general use?

rest of system:

2.4c
abit ic7
9800np

no, 1 gig is fine by me, i just ordered that ram :]

ok.. i guess ill just wait till newegg gets it back in stock then

You can never have too much RAM. Now sure, they say that more ram will give u slightly slower sandra marks, but not even close enough to notice in everyday use.

With 64bit cpu's coming into the mainstream, having more than 4GB no longer presents the problem it used to.

If I had it my way, I would have an enormous amount of ram and run ramdrives. I run ramdrives sometimes for the heck of it, and it is unbeilievable how fast you can transfer 100MB+ files in explorer.

If you have the money, 1GB is recomended, unless your doing rendering or running a server, then more would help a lot. If not, then dont get any more than 1GB unless you really have no budget at all.

so 1 gig+ would help for divx encoding?

more ram is better! nough said can never have too much of a good thing. well up to a point haha

I think anything past 1gig is going to be a waste of money. That money would best be spent on other things, such as a faster HD, better graphics card, etc.

1gig of ram will soon become a neccesity (sp?) for gaming.. you can never be to prepared

would 1gb of mushkin pc3500 lvl2 be overkill for just gaming/general use?

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No. I have 1 gig of that memory, Mushkin Black Level II PC3500 (256x2 & 512x1), and it's the best memory that I've ever had.

You know...just buy 10gigs...and stash it until you need it That way...in a few months, when you d/l a new game demo...you'll meet the min requirements