Who here has the lowest RAM?

[Andromeda]

1 GB RAM and 512 MB GPU RAM. When playing games it's the GPU that's tested more than your RAM or CPU. It's when you're encoding audio/video and image editing that your CPU and RAM are actually tested.

Quad Core computers are unrivaled for rendering videos. Oh dear lord I'd hate to see how long a high quality 30 minute video takes to encode on a single core computer.

[ThievingSix]

On my old P4 video encodes were a "I'll check progress tomorrow morning" thing. Now that I'm on the i7 it's done in an hour!

Also Vasu: It depends entirely on the game. GTAIV was more bound to the CPU because of the AI and physics.