Thanks a lot for the responses, I wish that guide thread of yours was already a sticky, I wouldn't have needed to post this probably! I'm glad that I have cleared up how crucial memory is for performance vs. other factors. I suppose I could wait for the AGP versions to come out because the PCI-E was the only reason I wasn't going to get one of those.
and thanks for the reseller link, very good to know!
EDIT: I just realized in my post thread I wrote about judging a video cards performance for number crunching applications.
Oh and is
THIS a good processor? I don't know much about them(MB's), just that there are tiny differences that can make a big performance difference. Like this one is a "clawhammer" but one on ebay is a "newcastle" sorry im too tired to google this up right now hehe. I'll check back tomorow.