790i... wtf are you talking about.. 790i is probably the best nvidia chipset out there... i'd like to see any other nvidia chipset do 600+ fsb on the wolfdale... not happening, and its doing 500 on quad cores... if u really think 790i is fail... then i guess x38 and x48 are all failures too...
and 200 dollars for 2 gigs of ddr3... well i'm not complaining.. why? because back in s939 days 1 gig of my ddr500 was about 100 bucks per gig... so no complaints here.. everyones gotten spoiled.. computer parts used to cost so much more for good stuff... 7900gtx's for 500 dollars... 2 gb for 200, 3800 x2 for 300... fx57's for 1200!!!!