What are shoppers buying this week? Well we set up another of our weekly ambush and stalked our target this week, Vincent.

Our friend is looking for an almost full system overhaul. As shared by him, his old DFI nForce 2 motherboard died recently so he decided it was time to do a system overhaul. His previous one-year old rig was based on the DFI nForce 2 with an AMD Barton CPU, propelled graphically by the ATi 9800 Pro.

He chose to go with an AMD Dual Core 4400+, remaining on the AMD side as he heard that the Intel CPUs run hot. His previous PC was already making him sweat from it's heat output. Initially he was eyeing the ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe to bundle with the CPU after reading some good reviews on it, but recommendations from the retail shop Fuwell and Bell on the MSI K8N Neo Platinum convinced him this was the better board. Goes to show how powerful words from retailers can be eh?

Also following recommendations from the staff, he decided to purchase the ASUS EN7900GT TOP going for $ 619. Topped it off with an Antec True-power 2.0 550w power supply and a pair of GEIL 2GB PC3200 DDR Memory kit. All in all, the whole upgrade cost him $ 2100, but he was happy and excited to finally be able to play his latest game Oblivion at high settings.

Quite the hard-core gamer ain't he!