Vista performance update

I finally got my secondary display working - by buying a different video card.  I went with an ATI X1300 series with 256Mb RAM.  Performance overall was still pretty poor, and although this video card has more RAM, it was actually rated lower (4.1) by the Windows benchmark than the NVidia 128Mb card I was running before (4.4).  After futzing with defrag, turning off Aero, and generally feeling the pain, I finally ordered a second 1Gb of RAM.  Man did that do the trick!  Windows Media Center used to take 5 minutes to launch, and now it comes right up.  The Windows benchmark didn't change much though - funny how in real use the performance difference was huge, but the way Vista runs the perf tests it didn't report any difference between 1Gb and 2Gb of RAM.