I've been debating on swapping my workstation and server. My server only has 8GB and that's the max it can go. I want to run more VMs and stuff, and I need to upgrade the OS anyway. Running Fedora Core 9 lawls. The yum repository for that distro has not been updated in a long time, so everything is just out of date.
My workstation has nothing but issues related to GUI stuff. So if I use it as server I can put more ram, and since a server does not use GUI, I wont get those issues either. Just not sure if the core2quad will cut it for gaming. Or I might just wait and save up to build a proper server with ECC Ram and stuff. Would also be nice to go to like 64GB or something off the wall like that, maybe even dual cpu.
Since I run Linux I can't say I've used more than like 5-6GB of ram so far on my workstation so 8GB would be plenty.
Would be a complex swap out to do though. I'd be out of a server AND workstation till both are up and running.