Hi tristanartform

-First of all don't post the same question over and over again in a different thread it's annoying.

-second ,when i look at your screengrab i see that your scene contains around 200 polys and you have a dual core processor.
I am by no means an expert when it comes to the inner workings of a computer but as i recall a computer works like a factorypipeline.

The software package sends out his packages to the processor which sends it via RAM to the disk.
Extra RAM only helps if your processors are so blazingly fast your disks have a hard time keeping up so that RAM temporarily stores the submited files to relieve some pressure of the harddisks

If i am correct about the fact you have a dual core machine don't think you having bought that extra RAM helps much when it comes to rendering because the first line is your processor and that will not render fast enough to fill up that 8 gigs.

Changing to a 64 bit os was one of the better choices you made since win xp 32 bit only adresses like 2 gb for programs, i know that there are boot ini settings which can change the fact that windows can see more than 2 gigs, but i know for a fact that xp 32 bit wasn't designed to adress more than 2 gigs and therefore will never work properly with more .

Hope this helps, please delete all the other obsolete posts or are ask the site admin to do it for you, and don't do it again, because it is quite irritating THE SAME WAY AS WHEN PEOPLE TURN ON CAPS LOCK, YOU FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE SHOUTING AT YOU IF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT, LOL!!!!!!