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It would depend on what you have in the image and what settings , more ram is better for sure and you only know by doing it, you commented in shaggy´s "Fire... ...Everything!" thread,

Shaggy could answer this much easier as I only model (not finding the time to practice with the layout side of Lightwave).

check out the Tutorial Section (Handy links) tread you find in my signature area and we have a few tutorials in the link above (in the same area as Home, Info, Tutorials, Gallery, Downloads, link, you will find some help there too.

At the moment we are having issues with our image hosting but if you start either to model or render and need help, you can use photobucket (free account) and post it here and we can help you if we can.

I use photobucket myself.