[Phalanx]

I never really buy top of the range...of course, I never have quite the fastest/best pc...I'm more the kind've guy that buys an upgrade or two only when a couple or more games I really want won't play, or something fucks up. Still being mainly a student, a gaming monster just isn't a viable option to me.
Although, I have to say that as nice a pc as 3G would throw together, I'm not sure I'd spend that much, simply because in a matter of a couple of months, what you spend 3 on, is now worth 2, likewise if you were to wait a little while, even though there WOULD be better pc's out by then, you'd essentially get it cheaper. In terms of graphics cards, the ball rolls even faster.
I'd only personally go up to about $1500AUD...but that (here) would buy a pretty damn good pc that would play anything on the market pretty much flawlessly...yes of course if I wanted to have the extreme highest of the high graphics/sound settings, I could spend more, but really...if a game doesn't run good enough generally I just wait for my next upgrade. $1G would suit me fine. I'm trying to work it so that I buy a new pc (or yknow massive upgrades) per year at this point...I don't mind being a little bit behind with certain titles, it's just my situation, and I'm cool with it...when I think about it, I don't mind at all, since when I DO get around to upgrading, then I have all the games I was unable to run last time lined up at cheaper prices, minus the hype...I can be truly selective, buy more games, and yeah, they'll pretty much run flawlessly by the time I get around to them.
Why, just now I can run quake 1 like a dream JK hAHahAhaHAHa....HL2 and call of duty era stuff runs ok, but that's pretty much as far as it goes.