Didn't have any running out of memory issues with 4GB, probably won't have any with twice that either.

I know what you mean there.
I used to try to stay one step ahead of the curve on amount of memory, but lately there just hasn't been a reason to.
On the good old curve I used to keep I'd have 32GB of memory by now.

She's up and running now, luckily she just booted up from the SSD and all I had to do was install the new drivers, Windows updates and my games would have taken forever if I had to do a re-install.