your gaming rig is a touch expensive, you dont need top of the line to play games. My $700 desktop ($250 of that total was the monitor). can run all past games on high and UT3 on medium. I just can't run crysis. Currently I could build a desktop for the same price and have a chance of running crysis on low and jsut spend $150 on a monitor instead and get an 9600GT as my video card.