amen to that.. got it running on my pc as well. got it free too :woot: On a strong machine with just two drawings open, it will pull nearly a gig of ram. I have 8 gigs of ram any other computer is too slow for me they lag it too much... I understand the theory, but you won't ever use that much. Something else will bottle neck first unless all you do it use progs that store data in ram and don't process. Are you running 64 bit 7? Yeah I have 64 bit Win7...with much ram comes much processor power...AMD Quad Core 2.2 that must be an older model quad there. gona upgrade down the road? i have a phenom II x4 955 and its way overkill for most of what i use it for. as far as ram goes im using about 3.7 gig out of 8 right now but i have like 50 tabs open in google chrome rofl. no one really needs 8 gigs of ram though.. Ram headroom FTW....Go the computer like 2 years ago...don't really plan on upgrading... im sure its working well for you. an Athlon II x4 can be had for about 100 bucks and would make a for decent upgrade. amazing how much computers depreciate in value so quickly! My computer is probably worth half of what I paid along with other electronics...