[quote name='daphatty']Ugh... Avoid Vista at all costs. There's really no reason to get 4 gigs of RAM. Vista reserves way more RAM than is acceptable IMO, probably to get people in your situation to buy more RAM. [/quote]
Buying the 4gb of RAM isn't to counter Vista's limitations on it, its to get the most out of games like Supreme Commander and Crysis, coupled with a nice quad-core (probably q6600 or q6850).
[quote name='mtxbass1']I'd recommend you do some more research on that particular board you are looking at. EVGA is known to have terrible quality control on their motherboards. Just because your video cards are EVGA doesn't mean your motherboard has to be for the "best compatibility".
Also, why are you gimping yourself from the start? Why not just get 2, 2GB sticks instead of 4 1GB sticks?[/quote]
Picking the EVGA board over an Asus is also because it's been listed in PCGAMER's "high end" build a couple times. Though with this feedback, I'll definitely check out what Asus has to offer.
I just found the 2x2gb link on newegg, I'll probably get that. Since SLI mobo's usually have 4 memory slots, what's the max that XP Pro will utilize? For instance, could I put in 8gb of RAM?