A short bit of background. My motherboard has been a piece of junk for months now. After a rather eventful installation, it failed to function under 'normal' installation methodologies. In other words, I needed to prop up a corner of the thing in order for the 'power' to function. Recently it managed to get so bad that in order for me to power it, I was bending it a good 15 cm. I'm not kidding. I have a video card with bent metal panels (the part that you screw on to fasten) to prove it. I'm worried about it a little, but I hope I can fix it with a (set of?) pylers, which I don't even have

Anyway the point is that I plan to buy a new mobo and processor. Is 2.8 gig (intel) a good choice right now, considering 3.0 gig is just out and costs a good 500$ CDN? Also, as the topic states, how much ram is 'too much'? I currently have a gig of PC133 sd(?) ram. There's a good chance the mobo I will buy will have 2 sdram slots, and 2 ddr ram slots (if not, then I'll use the ram on this 933 mhz processor comp and be happy anyway). Since I already have a gig of ram, will adding some more (another 512 or 1 gig) improve performance all that much? I know ram *does* provide some performance boost: this computer used to have 64 megs of ram and was a piece of junk, but now it functions pretty much like a normal computer does

So yeah, more ram = good? Also 2.8 gig = good?