I guess the irony of the platform is that it is an extremely high end board, basically tailor-made for a 3.46GHz P4EE. People aren't gonna buy this board for a 3.2GHz Prescott. Sure, while a P4 is generally inferior to the A64 in gaming on a price/performance scale, the difference is not that big of a deal when you are comparing, say, a 3400+ to a 3.4GHz P4. Yes, the A64 is better, but either will work pretty well, and the price difference is not that big, especially if you're getting a sweet blowout special for Dell or something. But if you are looking at the high end, why would you even look at Intel? Their 3.46GHz is SUBSTANTIALLY behind the FX-55, a chip that is $200 cheaper, not even factoring in the price of good DDR2 memory. And the video card? An X700XT? It's not a bad card, in fact, it's pretty neck in neck with the 6600GT, the card I'm gonna get, but they're not targeting the right market. If they really wanted to market to the high-end entusiast, they should have made an nForce4 SLI board with and a 6800GT or Ultra (X800XT would work, to, but not for SLI). Then again, who knows, they still might do it later on. I just think the marketing is mismatched. The board is an extremely high end board, but the platform is only competitive at the low end. The video card is midrange, so unless they can keep the price down, I don't think it will sell well, because midrange people want value, not slightly better performance and much higher cost. If they want an expensive, tricked out board, then it would sell better at the high end, for those people who want the best card no matter the cost.
As for the dude, I'm too busy at my REAL JOB to have time to think of a good joke about a guy who sits around and plays video games 12 hours per day for his "job." BTW, how can you devote that much time to one or 2 games? I guess some people think it's devotion, I am more inclined to think it's pretty obsessive-compulsive and kinda pathetic.