More impressive are the graphic card deals:

8800GT 512 $140
8800GTS 512 $199
9800GTX $250
Radeon HD3650 512 $60

Except for 9800GTX, which is just an overclocked 8800GTS 512, these
are awesome deals and show just how affordable PC gaming is these
days.

A $60 graphic card that can run latest games like BioShock, Call of
Duty 4 and even Crysis (at medium settings) at a resolution of
1024x768 to 1280x1024 near 25-30 frame per second. In the last twenty
years, a $60 card was never this much capable.

Then on high end, we have 8800GT and 8800 GTS-512 which can chew down
any game (even in DX10) with remarkably high frame rates at
resolutions of 1680x1050 and higher. 8800GTS-512 is even faster than
recent nVidia flagship 8800GTX in most games with 8800GT 512 very
close. So don't mistake the sub $200 price to think that you get
average performance.

With dual-core CPUs starting at $60, high-end PC gaming was never this
cheap.

This makes the recent statements on not releasing a high profile game
on PC, from Lucasarts even more laughable. They said that Star Wars
Force Unleased could be enjoyed only by the high-end $4000 (yes, four
thousand) PCs and most people would have to tone down the setting, so
PC release is not worth it. Had they blamed piracy, I'd understand but
their statement shows just how out of touch they are with the PC
gaming market.

Ok, this post has now veered off too much from the subject.
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Noman