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Originally Posted by Thunder Lucky
4 Gigs of ram is overkill on windows XP and you will not get any preformance increase. Anything over 2GB on Windows XP is complete overkill. On vista however 4 GBs of ram might show a bit of a increase in preformance then 2GB of ram but its not worth the extra money. Also for gaming never get less then DDR2 800
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4Gb of RAM on XP is only overkill on the 32bit editions, they can only address 4Gb of memory at max so I'd say the optimal is 3Gb, anything more than that is overkill.
3Gb will give a performance boost over 2Gb.
If you have the 64bit edition you could stick as much RAM as you want in. 8Gb would really be the max because that would be 4x2Gb sticks and thats pretty much the largest sticks you can get atm.