meh the gskil tri channel kit is out for about 105$ for 3gb. not to bad really, and gskill is really one of the only companys that matter. if gskill is available you will be fine. not sure if this is true but i herd the core i7 may have a performence lean towards nvidia, i forgot where i read it, been reading so much, could be bull dont truely know but it would be interesting to see if it is true, would be another way intel is trying to take down amd, by hurting there gpu front.