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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4627048" data-attributes="member: 360">You can get a decent PC for $500 and one with anything short of an i7 and a bleeding edge GPU for $1000. I mean, I'm not making this stuff up; I picked up a $550 Dell desktop last month because my laptop has been flaky -- 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, ~300GB HD, a low-end discrete graphics card (I pretty much only game on my 360), and Vista Home Premium x64.I mean, seriously, even if you're getting RAM from crucial.com, not some random bargain outlet, 2GB DDR2-800 DIMMs are less than $25. There's no reason not to get 4GB at those prices. 750GB hard drives are less than $100. I suppose you live in some bizarro universe where Radeon 4850s and GeForce GTX 260s (a very small step down from ATi and nVidia's best single-GPU cards) aren't well under $200? Graphics card prices completely collapsed when the Radeon 4xxx line came out last year. Heck, a 4670 is more than adequate for all but the most demanding games at high resolutions -- and you can get one for $70 from NewEgg.</blockquote>