256mb of ram for any version of Windows XP should be considered a minimum. 512mb I recommend personally if you play games. Any kind of flight sim or FPS will run better with more ram. When I run Battlefield or a Flight Sim they can and will use upwards of 300 to 400mb of free memory. Imagine if you didn't have that free memory? It's written to the disk, which is SLOW.

What's all this talk about integrated being bad? Integrated Graphics are BAD. Not other things. The nForce 2 boards have integrated sound that rivals the best sound cards on the market. They feature DOLBY DIGITAL and have every input and output you need. ON THE BOARD. People love them. Just because it's integrated doesn't mean its crap. That simply means instead of being on a separate board the components are attached the motherboard. The NIC works the same way. There isn't much to a nic, but if you physically look at a mb, you can see the ethernet controller on it. For the nForce 2 boards it just so happens they are all integrated on one controller. And }{unter do you know that the Xbox is basically a PC with an nForce Board? Yes it has integrated Everything on it, and it is an awesome console.