CS4 The effect of 6GB not 12GB Ram

I am planning on buying a new computer for Video editing amongst other things I would like to know if Adobe Premier pro cs4 is likely to crash or stall from only having 6GB Ram available when editing 1280 x 720 MP4 files and compiling png image sequences into animations( a couple of thousand images ).
Will having 6GB rather than 12GB mean that it will just take longer to render out to H264 or create a DVD or will it prevent me from rendering completly on occasion.
Computer spec is..
Motherboard Asus p6Tdeluxv2
Processor Intel i7 920, D0 SLBEJ S1366, Bloomfield, 2.66 GHz overclocked to 3.8 GHz
CPU cooler Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366RT 120mm
Ram TR3X6G1600C8D -12GB (6x2GB) Corsair Dominator DDR3, PC3-12800 (1600), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Un buffered CAS 8, DHX, XMP
PSU 850W Corsair 850HX PSU
Graphics card 1GB ScanFX GTX 285
Hard drive 2 x 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB cache
Windows 7 64bit
Thanks for any info

I thought cs4 was available in 64bit version and would make use of 12GB of Ram if it was available if required
I will go for the third disc. Can I be sure that the system will then cope with the requirements of my video editing

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