My history has always been "buy $50 CPU and overclock it to faster than the $400 CPUs. Upgrade every time a new good stepping comes out." This has recently evolved to "Spend $$$ on video card periodically and don't worry about CPU because it's fast enough". This is probably soon to evolve into "Never upgrade PC and run Linux on it for word processing and file serving and internet. Buy a console for the living room for games." Seems to be the direction it's heading anyway.
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