Correct me if I'm wrong, but XP will natively address no more than 4 gig... is that correct? I'm thinking of getting 2 x 2 gig sticks... mind you, they are bound to be dear, seeing how this is an older system. Over-clocking? No, I leave things fairly vanilla... that's a bit beyond my skill level.

Maybe I should save my money and just upgrade with another 1 gig module, because the current type of RAM probably won't work on an i5 or i7 motherboard, which is probably where I'm going.

Thank you for all your sage advice, Magic_Man...

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