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Read between the lines (bolded) - even Obi acknowledged that! Well, Obi, this time, I totally agree with you!  8)

when X2600s' hits the markets I'm gonna buy one...

BUT

if AMD-ATI runs low price politic SO how about a corssfire system
What crossfire motherboard do you recommend for LGA775 socket(not so expensive below 100€ perhaps)?

Do you think LC-power 420W is enough for X2600(and for crossfire(maybe not))??

well I already have a 775 mobo(waiting for new E4300)
and Intel has better power/price ratio right now

actually I hav always had Intel CPUs(286, 386, 486, Pentium 100MHz, P2 300MHz, P3 800MHz) and this duron is an exeption.(but still waiting something bone-crushing product from AMD 8) )

so I was thinking ASrock CONROEXFIRE-ESATA2 (OMG how expensive are CF MoBos from other manufacturers  )

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This is a lie. You obviously need a history lecture: Until first athlons arrived, AMD was allways  a few hundred miles behind intel - yes, it was cheaper but not as much as it was weaker. I don't know if you remember old 486, or AMD K5 based CPUs - they were nothing compared with genuine intel. For example, K5 133Mhz was an equivalent of 75Mhz Pentium! The history repeated itselft with K6 - it was nothing compared to Pentium MMX. A pentium MMX 200Mhz was in many cases better then K6 266Mhz. And let's not mention Pentium Pro @200Mhz... Then the first Celerons 300A combined with a BX pro MB - that was a dream combo, much, much, much faster and stabler (even cheaper, when combined with MB) then K6-2 (or 3) @500Mhz.

Then came the first athlon CPUs and for the first time in history did AMD get the performance/price ratio crown with a Duron Spitfire. Intel got it back with a Tualatin celeron a year later and then lost it again to Athlon XP T-bred. Then came the first opteron-based cluster servers that blew away xeons "on the paper", but the companies are still using xeons (it's very hard to change the thing that works good). After that - with the coming of Athlon 64 - the prices of new AMD CPUs are getting near to the ones of Intel CPUs and some CPUs are even more expensive then the intel equivalents - again, for the first time in history. For a short period of time, Venice 64 hold the performance/price cronw, but lost it with the new gen CPUs from Intel. Now, they HAD to lower the prices because they have apsolutely no CPU on the market to compete with Core 2 duo.

As for the cherry on top of this all, let me tell you that the BEST price/performance ration TODAY holds Core 2 duo 4300, a CPU that in many, many cases overclocks from 1.8Ghz stock to 3.6Ghz - a 100% overclock! World record in stock overclocking! As such, it beats the best CPU nowadays - Core 2 Duo x6800. Try and find an AMD CPU in that price range with that performance. You're going to need either N20 cooling system or a few hundred bucks more to get that performance for the price.

Oh and one more thing - in mobile market (laptops) there is no good solution from AMD. The old mobile CPUs from AMD don't even deserve to be mentioned. Modern turions 64 are not that bad, but still much worse then C2D, or even the old Banias/Dothan (centrino -M). I think I shed some light on this subject now.

In the end, may I humbly ask - why are you so blindly narrow-sighted with DAAMIT? Don't get me wrong, I used ATI/NV/3Dfx/Miro cards and Intel/AMD/IBM CPUs, and I allways admired AMD (and still using it), but I admit to facts - it's not that shiny as you show it. As isn't ATI (and I am happily using ATI AIW x800XT/mobility FIRE GL T2)

Well. ASrock isn't so good(like this K7S8X doesn't want run this 9800pro with 8x agp speed) brand but good to those who doesn't demand so much. but I chose my 775dual-vsta because both AGP and PCI-E support. When it is time to set up a crossfire system I'll buy a motherboard from better brand, because it's better to pay more for better perform.

BTW my big bro' needs a new agp videocard. He doesn't spend much on computers but wants to play new games. He prefer ATI so do you think that X1550 or X1650 is good enough run new games

yeaps got a nice ASUS AX800 XT Platinum Edition AGP 256MB GDDR3 Rev.B 0441 still going strong here! w00t !, how ever a  X1650XT is about 40% faster than a X850 XT PE AGP since it has the much faster GDDR3 memory okay it is 128 Bit do keep in mind that the RV560 VPU has 24 Pixelshader Processors compared to the 16 of the X850 XT PE as X800 XT PE cards.
the RV560 aslo has more Vertex schader power there by having 8 Vertexshader processors compared to the 6 on the X800XT PE as X850 XT PE cards.

Overall a singel X1650XT is faster in DX9.0c apps as a GeForce 7600GT, where as 40% faster than it's older X1600XT brother.

here a nice benchmark of the two
ATi radeon X1650XT versus nVidia GeForce 7600GT 8)
http://www.techspot.com/review/31-radeon-x1650xt-vs-geforce-7600gt/page2.html

"The new Radeon X1650XT is everything the original X1600XT should have been with performance at least on par, and usually greater than the GeForce 7600GT. The newer more demanding games such as F.E.A.R and X3: Reunion were the X1650XT specialties, as the additional pixel pipelines really came into play in these games. Even the games that are typically biased towards Nvidia, such as Quake 4 and Prey, had a hard time shutting down the X1650XT."

hmm nice, Prey on a Voodoo 5 6000 shopuld be possible too since it's based on the Doom3 engine

yeaps 3dfx still rules overall haha so funny even that CS-Source ran on a Voodoo3 3000 AGP LOL