It is extremely unlikely that Core2Extremes would drop down to my budget by the summer, especially counting with the way they have been going. I've never seen a Core2Extreme sold for under $800. It appears that they are able to sell all their stock at high prices, and then they replace them with the newer models, instead of simply adding new model to the older ones like they do with all the rest of the processors.
Also about the GPU, even if the 9800 is released by the summer, it will probably be at the price level of the 8800ultra, which is also far outside of my $1,000 to $1,500 range.
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