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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

32 gigs of ram

That's a LOT! Almost only very very high end computers devoted to some specific professional pack more than 8 GB even nowadays. But if you want so much good for you, I always say nobody can have too much RAM. In the medium or long I'd certainly recommend 16 GB. As I said it shouldn't be much more than $10 per GB. But that means 32 GB could cost over $300!

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

XP itself can work with multiple cores - but it's programs that must use it. Any modern program can utilize multi-core on XP, but if, say, System Shock 2 was never aware of several cores, it will not use it, no matter what. Same for other games for that era.

What I heard about SS2 was that it tends to crash in computers with multiple cores, and it could be solved by confining it to one of them in the task manager, or with the Ddfix community mod/patch. I don't know if it's true, and if it were, the only way a program can be affected by the number of cores is by creating several threads on purpose.