@Pasukun: Generally I assume you already have a monitor. If not you can get a passable one for $130. Not multitouch. Multitouch monitors currently suck anyways and are in no way necessary for gaming.

@PsychoSuperman: Also, if you're feeling really cheap, you can get a slightly more expensive motherboard that supports core unlocking and use it to unlock the extra processing core on a much cheaper triple core processor. But that's not something I would recommend to most people.

@PsychoSuperman: I've built many gaming PC's. The configuration below will play most games at max settings at 1920x1200. If upgrade-ability is a major concern, then a nicer PSU and motherboard can be had for not much more, but I wanted to keep this under $500.

@uppitycracker: You don't have to upgrade them at the same time. You can still install a discrete GPU and use it instead. All the high end Sandy Bridge motherboards will require a discrete GPU as they lack the hardware to use the built-in GPU on the processor.

@Aradiel: You can still install a discrete GPU and use it instead. Some Sandy Bridge motherboards will require a discrete GPU as they won't even support the built in crap on the CPU.

@Some_Guy2: I think part of it is that we PC gamers are kind of like the guys with the souped up awesome sports cars compared to all the console gamers and their Honda civics. Stay strong, don't be a d!ck, and enjoy your hotrod.

@jonterp93: If you don't know why you should put "playing cards" in your PC then you really should stick to console gaming. It's not just the performance, the general experience of PC gaming requires at least some level of technical savviness above the norm.

Intel's idea of a powerful GPU is weak compared to even low end discrete graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD.

@PsychoSuperman: A low end gaming rig will run you more like $500-$700, unless you're buying from Alienware, which is usually a bad idea if you're looking to save money.

@rlyon72: $350 does sound pretty bad when the actual unit doesn't do nearly as much as a comparably priced normal car stereo. All the music playback, display and most of the controls are handled by the iPhone. All this has to do is drive the speakers.

Could someone explain to me the advantage of having a TV at such a wide aspect ratio? I mean, we're just exchanging having black bars on the top and bottom of wide movies for having bars on the sides of TV shows.

@SKiTz: There won't be any cheap Honeycomb tablets if the rumored HW requirements are true. And to be honest, after using a Nook Color at B&N, I can honestly say I don't want a cheap Android tablet. It was slow and unpleasant.

@Cpryd001: I meet their recommended requirements, excellent connection quality and everything. It seemed impressive, but first person shooters were pretty much unplayable. The lag was simply too high from when I move the mouse to when the gun moves. I can see how it would work better for a third person game played…

I don't see how they can possibly succeed. The network lag alone is much more than the lag imposed by turning triple buffered vsync on, and many gamers I know can't even stand that input lag.

This kind of DRM only makes me pirate the games so I don't have to deal with this BS.

Why the hell is it illegal to rent games in Japan?

@anduin1: Same here. Angry Birds is fun for a few minutes here and there, but I have yet to see a game on the iPhone that could compete with something I would find on a dedicated gaming console or my PC.

There will always be a very large, sizable market for decent games with real depth. As long as Microsoft and Sony continue to cater to that market, they will not die.

Holy shit! Only 40 megabytes? That's all Nintendo gives you? What the hell is their problem?

Now you two assholes stop fighting and play nice or Santa won't bring you any presents this year.