Well DDR2 makes a BIG Diffrence, especially on higher speed, a 400MHz 1GB Stick would be badly beaten by a 677MHz or 800MHz Stick, regardless of size, offcourse, if one puts enough processing power, memory won't bottleneck performance too much, that is offcourse, you have Atleast 512MB DDR400MHz with Low Latencies
about your Processor query, well i am guessing your confused due to the stupid system recomendation which was in Fast Track this month, believe me, a High end system Certainly WON'T Have a 3800+ i don't know who writted that
anyways, dude bad news, AMD Dual Cores havne't launched here, i myself trying to get a 4400+ "Tolendo" AMD North said, they'd be launching it in Early November or before. they will be here BEFORE Mid November. aslo, ASUS K8N-E isa terrible choice, if you can get a DFI LAN Party nForce 4 SLi, or ASUS A8N-SLi Premium, i recommend the ASUS one, which is availble here and needs a minor B.I.O.S Update to reconize Dual Core X2s. about there prices, well AMD Said there Uncorfirmed (yeah, i can see where that is going) a Blind guess:
AMD X2 3800+
Rs.16,500/-
AMD X2 4400+ "Tolendo"
Rs.32,690
i DON'T CONFIRM THESE PRICES, and there merey indicative
@Kniwor: uh huh, what? you mean Cores