http://channel.tomshardware.com/2007...cs/page10.html

Check it out. Toms Hardware tested 3 different systems using up-to-date components: they made a budget, mid line, and top of the line system. Later on, they swapped out the 7600 GT from the budget system and threw in a 8800GTX an kept the Athlon X2 3800+ and 1GB of ram in the system.

They tested using 3D Mark 2005, Doom 3, FEAR, and Oblivion to monitor frame rates per second. The bottle neck was obvious at lower resolutions, however when you crank up the resolution, the tables swapped and the budget system (around $255 less) was cranking out nearly TWICE the number of frame rates as the mid line system (1600x1200 with 4xAA and above).

For those of you getting ready to build a new system, I suggest you read this article. It just opened up my eyes to another aspect of building a computer. Great, exactly what I need, more decisions... Any opinions? They did mention that they would never recommend such an unbalanced system, however numbers are numbers. What do you think?