I guess the bias 1 sided crowd will never understand how things work. First I see people making things up. If you had a clue about anything but your 20 dollar durron, you would know the 850e chip with 1066 Rambus was by far the fasted thing out there at the time. We compared the AMD to intel on a real mother board, the Asus PT533 and it was nearly double any amd. In fact, the 1.6a outperformed the fasted AMD at the time. The silly sales pitch you fell for was comparing an intel p-4 on a 645 chipset, not the 850e with 1066 rambus. It was very expensive and that had a lot to do with guys like you that work at McDonalds not buying it. And you may want to read up, if you dont take my word for it. Toms hardware can explain to you why rambus failed. It was expensive and it was about as fast as it could go at 1066. It is still faster clock than DDR2, but the memory subsystem is dated compared to ddr2, and DDR2 does have much greater throuput. But remember, Rambus was out when SDram was dominant and still outperformed DDR. Of course DDR2 is better, b ut you will never get the same performace on some old duron cpu that a 478 p-4 3.06 with 533 fsb can deliver. sorry to write something so negative, but I can not stand to hear this lame, uninformed sales pitch anymore.