After some hemming and hawing I picked up another 4gb of RAM from a dude on craigslist. Pull out one 1gb stick, pump in the two 2gb sticks and now I am at 7168mb. So far so good. My box is definitely not thrashing like it used to on Fallout New Vegas or much of anything. Where I would expect the hard drive to spin up it's quiet.

The guy himself was a bit... odd. I would have pegged him for a chi-mo, but oh well.

Let's see how Windows8 runs in Virtualbox now!