As more and more people are moving over to Win 7 or 8 there will be less of a market for XP stuff like RAM. Thus I would expect new RAM prices for XP to increase with time. As Eddie has said ram is cheap right now and 4 gigs is the most that you should put it.

IF you are positive that you will keep XP for several more years then personally I would buy a couple of backup sticks right now.

PS – you may be able to buy some used sticks cheap. Just try them out before you really need to use them to see if they are ok.


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