Using any of the methods available for speeding up a clip only allows to speed it up to 300%, or a 4.00 playback rate. Is there a way to speed up a clip even more in Vegas? To 1000%, or whatever I want?
Also, is there any hack to let Vegas use more than 1 GB of RAM for previews?
You can combine the two methods. So to get your desired 1000% you could use a 250% envelope combined with a 4X playback rate.
If you need even more, you can use a script. I don't know if there is a free one but the excellent Peachrock Veggie Toolkit contains one called TimeBandit which will handle this.
Alternatively, if you don't want to spemd any money, you could use a frame decimation approach. Render out the clip as an image sequence, delete every frame except those you need to keep, renumber the remaining frames and re-import the new image sequence. E.g. for your example of 1000% (=10x) you would delete all but every tenth frame, i.e. keep frame 1, delete frames 2-10, keep frame 11, delete frames 12-20, keep frame 21, delete frames 22-30, etc.