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A friend of mine is building a computer that can easily play Crysis for about $600. Computers are definately getting cheaper.

I know, right? I get cost on computer parts where I work, and when the new quad cores started coming in, I damn near soiled myself...don't remember what retail was on them, but cost was only like $300. Way less then the $500 and up that I figured they'd be, and this was when they first came in, the price can only have dropped by now.

Of course, factor in the new mobo I'll need, plus the new ram, video card, etc, and I'm still dropping a bit on my new PC when I get my tax return, but I figure it'll be money well spent (still running single core AMD o.c.'d to 2.8 GHz with 2 gigs PC3200 memory...WAAAAAY too slow, crysis demo tops out at 800x600 with everything set to low ;