Oh god... it's exactly what I expected.  I seem to recall specifically laughing at the concept of 1GB 3650's in another thread here.  It's a silly marketting gimmick and it also shows why it's important to avoid anything slower than GDDR3 memory.  Aye caramba.  Stuff like this actually annoys me.  Words cannot quite describe the feeling... disappointment with some anger.  It's almost bloated, but it's more like it's just a waste of such potential.

This is just like the MHz race of years past. All this is for are for the people who only know how to turn a computer on a run MS Word and iTunes. Just like in the MHz wars all these people know is a bigger number is better so to market to these people they give them a bigger number to oogle at. And just like in the MHz wars these people don't know the drawbacks of haveing just a bigger number without factoring in other variables.

Next up we will sell you a Geo Metro with 50" tires.....bigger number is better. But if enough people buy the card because it has a bigger number on the box and makes it profitable to do so then I guess thats good marketing. For those of us "in the know" we know better than to judge a book by it's bigger number.

That was a very interesting review...one of the rare cases where throwing more memory at it failed to speed things up. Heck, it even slowed things down!