It's really simple, if you are doing any serious gaming or digital editing you need a serious rig. If your gaming ends at SOL.EXE and the most you do is surf the web and mangle a couple photos and machine with integrated video and sound is an acceptable trade off for cost of a new machine.
If I was still in heavy gaming (they no longer make great flight sims
) I'd have set my machine up that way but I stuck with the Nforce chipset for now... Just hard to me to justify a $120 board with a $300 graphics card or even a $150 card when people are not gaming or doing heavy CAD / Photoshop...
Notaro - what did you get - Dell Specs??? And what are you trying to run?