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[GoldenTiger]

I live in the U.S., perhaps things are more expensive over in Belgium, I don't know. However, here you can build an 8800GT-512 SLI rig for around $650 without much effort mostly from newegg. Anyone who doesn't calculate price/performance on any purchase, except pure benchers with money bleeding out their ears who care about performance at any cost, is a fool and likely to run into financial trouble as they likely apply it to everything in their life, money be damned. By the way, it's "Tiger," not "Tigro."

That 650 dollar gaming pc must be a true rocker i!f you think it can reach 80%... if you felt insulted sorry for that, but I would like to know in which country you live in as even for my Voodoo 12mb I payed more than 350dollars and that's a long long time ago...if I quickly recalculate that with my salary then and the past money value must be around 450 dollars ...Must be PCwonderland... Secondly noone forces you to buy the latest and the fastest, if you can go with a vidcard for 3 years, good for you...Thirdly some peeps don't want to risk the OC like most of us do and just want the fastest thing out of the box...

On my part I just sell my hardware to friends and co for a very fair price and just add some to get better hardware just to mess with and bench on... for gaming I could still play on my 7900GTX's at medium and low detail settings if I wanted, but for benching I need more... and as a PC assembler it's nice to show new stuff at LANS and co...

We all noted that you find the price unfair, so be it. No need to hump om each post and rub it in, over and over again... for single card users, these cards might be great if they deliver... no hassles for SLI, can be run on cheapo mobo's, easier cooling setups (thinking of water), etc... Also dual chip or SLI or Crossfire are nice things but can be plagued by bad drivers and for me never ever again after my 7950X2 experience and the micro stuttering issues with my 7900GTX's... I stick with a single card setup for gaming...

Think of me what ya want, I really don't care Tigro... If you calculate everything price/ratio you are in the wrong sector, even when you buy ya pc and walk out of the shop your rig is already dated...

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Here's an example build I found and made in five minutes of work, if you wanted to meet my target of $650 you could just drop the CPU to a lower-end dual core and you'd be a scant amount over it with a CPU such as an Allendale for $60-70 oc'd to 3.0ghz or so... this is a quad-core rig with near-GX2 performance, 2GB ram, real motherboard/case/psu/etc., plenty of storage, etc. (hard drive could be shaven down too a few bucks such as a $30-40 200-250gb jobbie). It adds up to $662 with a dual-core CPU, $642 with a smaller hard drive and a dual-core CPU, or as shown $792. So, please try to tell me that for anyone but a hardcore bencher, again that $650 is not a lot for one computer's part?

Q6600 $200 when added to cart http://shop2.frys.com/product/5101696

Motherboard with X-Fi sound onboard $140-30rebate=110 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130080

2gb 1-stick RAM module PC2-6400 $35 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609283

Rosewill case w/ free shipping ATX (non-junky) $39 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147088

Rosewill 550w SLI PSU well-rated on various real review sites $65 shipped http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182090

2x 8800GT 512 video cards in SLI mode, various, example $160-30rebate=130x2=$260 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121224

DVD burner, various Lite-On/etc. drives $23 w/ free shipping example http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106228

hard drive 500gb 7200.11 Seagate $60 shipped via various specials every week or two at various vendors