Not to mention availability. In Norway I can't find anyone selling the ATI Radeon boards (not that I have looked really really hard for it, just casually browsed the places I usually buy stuff from), and the only Radeon boards are the Hercules ones. A Radeon isn't even near 1/3 of a 4600 here. more like 80% of a 4600. For specific prices I refer my post in this previous thread http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1374