[bobgpsr]

I am entirely agnostic about AMD vs Intel. I have PC's with each. But I don't used either for gaming -- more for audio and video processing which currently does not benefit a lot from more than 1 GB of RAM, however games very much do use a lot of RAM and 4 GB would be best for gaming. The new Vista version of MS Windows may very well benefit from 2 GB RAM overall though. The Intel instruction set improvements and front side memory bus bandwidth have kept Intel a bit ahead in the past for doing video codecs - encoding and decoding - along with other video processing. AMD has done very well in gaming vs Intel. My opinions expressed above are from my experience and research. YMMV.

Bob