Well, I've been looking for options, and I found a set of two 1 GB ram for about $80, on auction, if they stay that cheap, I'll take the chance.
Sure is nice to do a simple plug and play upgrade as well, popped open the case, removed the slot blocking thing, popped the card in, secured it, closed the case and fired up the computer. Ran the install CD and that was it, worked fine right out of the box.
Not only that, the new external HDD had a one year warranty, but for about $5, I got that extended to FIVE years! The kicker was that the $5 came from points on my point card for the electronics shop, and they are having a sale, so I get 10% points back, not the usual 5%, thus, $70 for the graphics card, and $120 for the external HDD is $190, and the points I got on that was $19, so the $5 came from that $19
Now the rendering is WAY faster, takes about 3 minutes of rendering time for 2 minutes of video time, before it was like 10 minutes of rendering time for 1 minute of video time. Now a 30 minute video takes 45 minutes to render, before, FIVE HOURS!!!
This has been a LOT cheaper than buying a new system as well.
Cheers!