THG has an article up that all of you gamers on a budget out there will certainly want to have a look at. Building a gaming PC for ~$500 certainily isn't easy, but I think they just might have pulled it off with their setup. What I'd like to see now, though, are benchmarks on that system, to see how it actually performs...

"If you are like this writer, your passion for the latest and greatest technology is bigger than your wallet. Let's face it, most of us can afford to fork over the occasional $50 for the latest game title, but even the most hardcore gamer usually won't pay more than $600 for the latest graphics card or processor."