nickelob your thing says you have eight coresfour of them must be those virtual cores or whatever they're called?extra ones, I don't know but there's no way you actually have an eight core processor
But you can buy an eight core from AMD...
Owned.Anyway, OP, do you have 2GB total RAM?If so, 1GB for the OS is quite normal. Windows 7 64 on a machine with 3GB of RAM will hog about half of it.