Exporting rather large image in Illustrator CS5...

Lets just say I wanted to export an image from Illustrator CS5
What I want would be 3000px², with 300ppi, and level 7 detail, jpeg. (I would work with PNG ussually, but that's a whole nother issue)
My computer specs
i7, quad core
3.2 GHz
8gb ram
RAID 0 HDDs
So when I try to export the image, it tells me that I have insufficient memory. I can produce 150ppi just fine but dammit, if I can't do 300ppi with my build, what computer can? (I do, however, understand that 3000px² is rather large)
Thanks for you time

Do I understand you correctly, your document is 3000x3000 pixels in dimension, that is the size of your artboard or bounding box of the art?
A nd you are exporting it as jpeg at 300ppi? Then what is the color mode of the document, RGB or CMYK?

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