I have a gig of memory....ahahaha...I'm retarded. Anyways...I had some extra money to burn and it's good for my server. Other then that, there is no purpose in large amounts of memory. win98 systems shouldn't use more then 256k. Windows doesn't know what to do with the extra memory, and it likes is virtual memory better. If you are using it for you server, 512 should be sufficient. 256 is still good. 384...it'll be good for multi-tasking. Depends on you. I have a gig, and I run my graphics programs and I have my TV tuner card, and like 10 broswers opened...while acting as a file server to my roommates, and a dedicated server for counter-strike. Yes it's over kill...but oh well...I love over kill