In Part I and II of this series I left out something rather important – prices. The Pricegrabber pages I link to do have prices, but for the small percentage of blog readers who don’t click on the links, I’ll give an idea of relative pricing. At the time of blogging  the Velocity Micro Edge Z-55 went for for just over 2,000 US dollars. The Alienware Area-51 ALX Desktop I mentioned in Part II goes for over 4,500 US Dollars.

The gaming PC in this blog entry  is one of the cheapest. The Dell Studio XPS Desktop is a “Gaming-friendly System” which can be configured quite nicely for 1,500 US Dollars. This configuration would include 6GB RAM, a 500GB 7,200 rpm hard drive, and a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics cars. The icing on the cake is the Intel’s Core i7 desktop CPU – currently the best “bang for your buck” quad-core processor.

The only thing this package is missing is a monitor, which is going to push the $1500 price tag up a couple of hundred dollars