Or you could do what I do, allocate a gig of ram out of your 1.5 gigs to be a ramdrive, put your 256 mb swapfile on it (since windows can't seem to live without one), and still have room left for your temp file directories and a CD image / favorite game install.
The system doesn't have to be "slow" if the ram is "slow". Any DDR is blazingly fast compared to accessing even the fastest hard drives, and does warp nine compared to a cdrom drive. I barely even notice load screens for games on a ramdisk.
That said, you'll thank yourself for spending more cash on the good ram. I bought good solid corsair 3200 sticks a long time ago, and they're still quite seaworthy. If it's a question of how much cash you have right now, I'd buy the nicer stuff and upgrade later, should you so desire.
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