This is great news to hear. I priced a computer on Newegg for around 2k (includes a 24 inch monitor) that's a core i7 and a 2 gb GDDR Radeon X2. This is the same amount of money that I spent on the Alienware 3 years ago. BTW, I still don't think workstation stuff is completely bad. My neighbor has a 7 year old computer…
All depends of your use, i own two dual xeon workstations (one dual core and other quadcore with 16GB! lol), and the difference between a gamer computer (9550, 4gbram, gtx285 OC) is huge in the majority of cases. the GTX285 OC@730(300watts+) is pure shit in 3ds Max compared with an old and crappy quadro fx 3500 (75 watts,…