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Seeing this discussion is quite interesting to me... but truth be told, I'm so glad that I don't have the urge to build monstrosities like CGI is planning. Somewhere along of getting old I decided that 2-3 X yearly trips to Mexico and Europe are worth more than a nice PC rig.

You can still game properly on much cheaper PCs. For example. 6 months ago I found an barebones Shuttle PC AM2+ for sale and recycled some AM2+ parts like an Phenom X4 945, 4GB DDR2 and bought Radeon 7750. Pretty much everything I played works great and PC cost me 200 bucks. :)

720p + medium/high details + 4XAA or 1080p + low/medium details + no AA FTW.

Come to think of it, I have the fastest 95W AM2+ compatible CPU, fastest GPU that will work on a 250 W PSU... My PC is maxed out. Could use some water cooling. :)