How much memory

[ToiletDuck]

I'm asking this question to those that are out there and actually use a lot. Right now i'm sitting on 512mb of mem on my mom's computer and it works just fine. However at my home I have 1gb as you can find in my sig below. I like to play games and such like Star wars galaxies and also use my computer quite a bit for encoding and such. Any of you think I would notice a difference if I went from 1gb to 2gb? It is for the system in my sig.
Thanks
Duck

[RAMMAN]

there is only one time when you need 2gb of ram and that is when running doom3 at ultra quality mode.however since you only have a 9700pro 2gb of ram will make no difference whatsoever.so if you want to spend money get either a X800 or a 6800 gfx card with 256mb of onboard memory before you even consider getting 2gb of ram.

[ps2cho]

Its really pointless having 2gigs of ram for a home sytem, unless u wanna run HL2, Doom3, UT2k4 lol
1gig is plenty 1gig 512mb would be awsome, anything above that is not really worth the money..

[ToiletDuck]

Thanks for the help. I'm just wondering where the bottleneck in my system exists. I guess I could accept the fact that it's my processors but They just seem to handle everything.

[RAMMAN]

i just noticed your cpu in your signature and it is most definitaly your bottleneck you have been looking for.you will need to get a much faster cpu before even thinking about upgrading any other component in your system.