Quote Originally Posted by 'Beerbastard',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157711# post157711
I can tell you that, unless you are running a 64bit Operating system, that anything above 4gigs doesn't matter. 32bit OS only use up to 4gigs of ram, and actually show having less than that, due to some addressing limitation i think.

So in short, No difference between 6gigs-8gigs of ram on 32 bit OS
Yea 64-bit is a given and It'll be vista 64-bit at that which is why I'm thinking 8 gigs might be better. As for the cpu after doing some research here it seems that a quad core is best suited but I'm not sure if I should shell out another $100 for say a 2.5 GHz or save some green and go with a 2.33.