How much RAM is too much or no benefit

[jeffc]

Point out where I was wrong.

Sorry - I'm also confused. Someone named Conor made the reply I was
talking about, not you. My apologies.

Because an article in Maximum PC measured to
see if there were any performance gains under WinXP using 1GB RAM instead
of 512MB and found that it was so slight, it wasn't worth the upgrade? How
was that _wrong_?

It isn't you that's wrong, but Maximum PC (if that's all they said). You
can't claim that there aren't performance gains from going from 1G to 512MB
because it's completely dependent on the applications you're using and how
you're using them. If all you're going to do is boot up Windows XP, then
you're not going to be noticing any difference above 256MB either.

My point is simple: if you cannot get any speed gains from adding more
memory, nor have you not maxed out your current amount of physical RAM,
there is simply no reason to get more. More memory would not give you any
benefits.

I totally agree.