I don't know what rig you have but you obviously need an upgrade. It costs just about $500 to build a rig from scratch to run crysis on low to medium, and I mean the entire box not just the video card.

Why would you brag? It's better to make your money and also cry poverty. Then any greedy decision you make you can hide behind the PR shield of "It's because of those damn pirates!"

It's basic buisness (and military) strategy. It gives you an unassailable position. 

Like I said, easy solution to piracy is some form of login. There is a reason why battlefield 2, and 2142 didnt flop. They both had logins. Same with WoW, and all the Steam games. In order to play them you need to login. This is why UT3 is hard to pirate. It requires a login.

I think the main problem is that companies like Dell or HP jack the price up on their high-end rigs that people can only afford to spend $6k on them every 6 years meaning instead of upgrading them, due to ripoff upgrade prices, they deal with newer games only being able to be played on low and eventually not at all.

Yeah I agree this would be the ideal solution.  Why don't I bootleg on the xbox 360? Xbox live which is basically a login.  Before then I bootled on the dreamcast,ps2 and the xbox. 

By the way another reason I dislike PC for gaming is the ripoff of video cards dropping in price so fast and radically.  Is annoying paying $300-400 card that will be $100-200 in a couple of months.  Yeah I guess you can wait but when does the waiting stop...

 You'd have access to more games with a PS3? Play with more people online? That just made my roommate look at me funny cause I was laughing aloud. As far as having to upgrade to run games soon that's just not true. I have not heard of ANY PC game that has been announced, or rumored about, that will require the horsepower that Crysis required. If you shell out 1k for  a self built computer you'd be fine for up to 5 years. Hell I had a mediocre laptop at the time that I bought it and that lasted me good 4 years (It just so happened that its motherboard crapped out beginning of 2007, it would not have run UT3 or Crysis). And that's a laptop, now think a nice desktop. And yes I do agree that within 5 yers you'd have to upgrade to play the new top of the line games at all, but that just means those top of the line games will be far better than any of the games on the PS3 (in terms for graphics and hopefully AI).

I think this is a big problem as people are cheap and buy those dell or hp machines or even the emachines which are fairly cheap with their big hardrives and memory etc but then have a crappy ass card.  People are mislead all the time in the stores thinking they are getting a greta package or deal which is true if all they want to do is use office and the internet but not much is paid to gaming.  They expect you to come back later and upgrade to one of those expensive cards for which local stores typically don't have the latest so are over priced etc.  Basically alot of people are screwed when it comes to PC gaming unless you are some what savvy about PC hardware etc.

 typically a new high-end video card is released ever 7 - 10 months. After release normally the low-mid end cards are released. After the mid-end cards are released or 2 - 3 months have passed prices are about $200less and thats when you snag the high-end card of the last generation. I'm waiting on the 9800GX2 to be released because I plan on building in June.

Thanks for the info.  So what is the best one to get right now or are we in a waiting period about to hit those 7-10 months?  Looks llike my girls card is going bad so may need to get something soon.  She had a nvidia 6600gt.  Any information would be helpful.