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Originally Posted by Dismounted
3 GB of RAM, are you sure you're not going a little overboard? 
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It is what the system came with out of the box. Since the entire system only cost me $900 (after adding a video card), I didn't complain. But I have found that large world games like World of Warcraft and City of Heroes work best with at least 2 GB of RAM. Command & Conquer 3 doesn't complain either. Having 3 GB of RAM also allows me to have up to 1 GB shared with my video card for extra texture storage that then reduces the load on my hard drive and increases the responses of the games. All 5 of my computers have at least 2 GB of RAM though, even the laptop. I wouldn't purchase a computer with less than that these days.
However, I can increase it to 4 GB with my 32-bit version of Vista. If I switch to the 64-Bit version of Vista, the motherboard will support 8 GB of RAM (4 slots of 2 GB DDR2 modules).