In some ways, it's never been a better time to be a PC gamer. Beyond the glut of games in almost every genre you can think of, it's never been easier to put together (or buy) a brilliant gaming PC for less—with one notable caveat. While a great CPU, motherboard, RAM loadout and SSD combo can be had for less than $500, modern graphics card pricing means you'll potentially be paying the same again (or much, much more) for a GPU capable of running demanding games at high frame rates and a respectable resolution.
One single component creates a bottleneck, a barrier to entry for those of us not on the megabucks—and it's the sort of thing that makes me wonder about the future of our entire hobby.
