Sony should kick Squaresoft in the nads and already have them make Final Fantasy 7 sequel or remake. It's what the people want and it would generate tons of revenue. Wake up Sony.
I recommend this website www.gpureview.com. It is great for comparing cards and it has prices and direct links to cards. My current build is a Q6600 with DDR 2 memory and a Radeon HD 4870. It's not the top of the line but it doesn't need to be. It's lasted me since 2007 and since then I've sent the mobo for RMA once and purchased two new power supplies.
It's the same build though and I haven't had to purchase a new system for quite some time. I'm quite happy.
you can get vista at newegg.com oem for system builders for 110$ bucks. Not a rip off at all. Game runs fine on high with a quad core 6600, geforce 8800 gts 640mb from evga, 3 gb crucial ballistix, windows vista 32bit!
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