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Why anyone would spend that kind of money on a gaming maching is beyond me....I have a machine I built myself for under $1500 that plays all the games out there maxed out....why need more? Instead of blowing 10 or more computers worth of money up front for something that will be obsolete in 2 years, why not upgrade as you go? It is definitely funny what someone will spend on something. Personally I think they create a market like that for the stinking! rich people that want to blow money on their kids, especially if it islistedas a gaming machine.My comp has:
3500+ AMD 939 socket
2gb matched pc3200 ram (4 times 512)
PCI-X BFG 7800GT OC
SoundBlaster X-fi
SATA 200gb HD
480w Thurmaltake powersupply

FEAR, HL2, Quake4, Doom 3, Farcry all run maxed out and with the extra fans in my case, the card doesn't hardly get warm. When I can't max out the games, well then it will be time to upgrade. Last time I had to updgrade my motherboard and processor because AGP is dead and all the best and newestvideo cards were all PCI-X. (not to mention that PCI-Xis far superior) $105 for motherboard MSI k8n neo4, $349 for BFG 7800GT OC (thanks New Egg!), $200 (appr) for 4 sticks of the 512mb pc3200 ram (400mhz and matched). I used all else from old machine. Total upgrade cost of a little over $700 with tax. You only have to do this about once a year to stay inline with the newest games. A little math says I will be upgrading for years if not decades before I spend $25,000.
When my friends come over to play, they now say it looks better than an XBOX360 on Call of Duty 2.
If you aren't a "techy", Alienware has a reputation for putting out some screaming gaming machines for far less money then whatMr_ME_llwas talking about for far less money.

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