[Bulbarainey]

For AMD64, the 64-bit isnt really taken advantage of, although you can get 64-bit Mandrake and a beta version of Windows XP-64.... but the thing that's more important that the AMD64 does is more things in less cycles, and performs better in a lot of games....usually better bang for your buck too. As for video cards, I usually get ATI, but this time around the 6800GT seems to be the best price/performance... Don't spare the 20-30$ on your mobo, get a quality brand board and try to get PCI-E, ive wasted a lot of time on crappy boards