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In summary if you're going for absolute best bang for buck it seems that an 8600 GT and an Athlon 64 X2 3600+ are your best bets based on their benchmarking.

Hmm, I have an 8600GT and an E4500 so I guess I chose all right, although it looks like I should have gotten an AMD.

I'm really really looking forward to the 9600 release, I've read a lot of great things about that card and I think you will see the PC gaming market blown wide open if it gets released at a reasonable price. There will be PCs that can play crysis on all high settings for around $500 and I am fairly sure that the 9600 will be the card of choice when Crytek unveils their $600 system the've been telling folks about.

But the 8600 is not that powerfull compared to the 7600, is not a big jump like the 6600 to 7600 something is not right...

The first thing i read from the headline was "best bang for buck" and got excited about the topic, but after seeing it was PC hardware, i got a little dissappointed.

Does these take into account how long your PC hardware lasts somewhat up to date? Since the "sweet spot" of price and performance isn't necessarily the best option, if you need to replace your hardware more often to keep it's performance at decent level.