@pongley: what you say is not really true anymore. Their drivers are leaps and bound where they used to be - and Nvidia hasn't been doing so good with drivers in the last year or so either. Nor are they *nvidia* so good at being plug and play anymore either. They've done some really questionable things to gamers over the past two or so years that it's hard to see why anyone would defend Nvidia at this point beyond blind brand loyalty. Not that both sides don't have followers like that - sad that there ARE sides to begin with.
DirectX 10 and Vista. Unless the standard changes sometime soon, PC's will always have the better graphics in the end; not to mention that keyboard/mouse control beats console controllers in most things. ESPECIALLY if your into First-person shooters and RTS games. Accuracy is what counts, and a mouse delivers it far better then a gamepad.
Mobi; That motherboard/CPU combination doesn't support DDR2. You'll have to get an AM2 socket CPU/Motherboard if you want to use DDR2 instead of DDR. Reason for this is that the memory controller is on the chip for AMD Processors, where as for Intel, the memory controller is on the motherboard. Hence why AMD created the new socket type.
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