So I was logged out of the FTB forum for some reason and didn't get notified about any of this (which is one of the reasons I haven't been around here in a while).
Thanks for your feedback and support! I have 6 gigs of RAM and have allocated 5 to Minecraft which allows me to be able to run up to ~100 (according to forge's mod count) before I get considerable lag. There are some mods I avoid because they just put too much weight on my system like JourneyMap and Natura (not sure why natura puts so much weight on me but it does).
On to the PSA I've posted to the FCB and M-FCB forums:
Thanks again!
[EDIT]
@Senseidragon, sorry about not being able to snag down a regular recording schedule yet. Unfortunately I live in a trailer park and we have a few people that like to stop by the house nearly every day (unexpectedly) and one of them is very loud. There are also things I have to take care of like finishing up my cosplay for DragonCon and doing things around the house. Hopefully when school starts (or rather, when I have access to my class which will be this coming Monday) I'll be able to come up with a decent schedule. I would like to try recording at some time during the week and then making it my main goal to have the episode uploaded on the following Sunday whenever that happens to occur. My life however never has followed a schedule and probably never will which makes doing things regularly very hard (I get thrown curve balls so often I almost know how to hit them back).
(also it doesn't help that I don't really get a whole lot of respect from my mom in terms of recording as she just sees it as a hobby)
[EDIT 2] Come to find out I spent ~40 minutes of the recording finishing the magic building so hopefully the episode will turn out to be no longer than ~45 minutes ish. YAY~!