How much DDR Ram should I get? Help Please

[Peabody]

I have an IWill KA266 mobo with a 1.4 GHz non-oc'ed AMD CPU, NIC, hardware modem, ADSL external modem. GeForce 2 MX400 video card, CD and CDRW, 40 GB 7200 rpm ATA100 hard drive, sound card and 256MB PC2100 DDR Ram. I have Windows XP Pro installed as the operating system. I am experiencing ocassiona freezes and have to restart or turn off completely sometimes. I am considering getting some high performance Mushkin ram to see if that helps. Do I need more than 256 MB? Any other thoughts appreciated

 

[Yomicron]

when it comes to RAM more = better, it depends on what you do on your comp. I'm running XP Pro w/ 512MB of RAM and currently have 170MB available, so if you can afford it, get as much as you can. But 256 should be okay.

 

[microAmp]

There was an nice thread going on a bit back about 256 MB vs 512 MB, it was more or less split down the middle on which is needed. Check it out if you like here.

I myself prefer 512 MB RAM, I play games a lot and don't want RAM to have a possiblity of holding me back.