Ladies and Gentlemen, young Andrew has just spoken **** as we say in Australia.
Now here are the facts.
Firstly we need to agree upon a gaming standard, and I consider 10x7 at high-max settings to typically offer a great compromise of smooth gameplay and great visuals, eg, D3, HL2 and Far Cry all look good at 10x7 maxed, and the system I have as described in my profile covers that.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA, thanks, that's hilarious, I'm sure people will be looking to you for advice in the future with that nonsense....as we have BF2, FEAR and presumably Q4 and Stalker more than likely needing 2 gigs to achieve lag free gameplay.
FEAR is a RAM hog, it lags at 680x480 on my system, and I have I gig of ram, thus the idea that you could play it at 10x7 with high settings without 2 gigs is ludicrious, what's also ludicrious is that D3 doesn't need a gig of ram....in fact, D3 looks awful with lowish settings and will still lag with settings on low unless you have the 1 gig.
So Andrew you go back to lag and stutter, and look forward to some terrific lag and stutter when the blockbusters start hitting the shelves.
If a FPSer fan wanted to build a box today, then he would be advised to get this as the entry level spec to enable FEAR, Q4, STALKER, SS2, Just Cause to run at no lower than 10x7 with all settings and aa/af maxed...
AMD 3500 or higher, 2 gig of DDR400 ram, X850XT PE-7800GT or higher, although a AMD 3500, 2 gig, 7800GT will hit the spot, you won't be dissappointed with the grunt or image quality that produces.