That’s what the PlayStation3 is for.
Or, rather, since there are no video cards that *really* support dX10 just yet, you might find that difficult to do...
Oh, and while you’re trying to one up me on the geek scale? I’d like to see *you* build your own vintage Jaguar out of a giant pile of parts and then use it as a daily driver.
Call me back when you’ve achieved that level. Compared to that, building a computer from off the shelf parts is both unimportant and trivial.
I see the anti-Mac argument has come full circle from the days when Macintosh was sneeringly dismissed as a "toy" computer for kids and grandmas, and all the hardheaded business types used Windows to get real work done.
Nowadays, I have gone 100% OS X because I have important business to attend to, I don't play any computer games, and my time is much too valuable to waste in building my own computer and keeping it free of spyware and viruses. I shall leave that to the unemployed pasty-faced basement-dwelling hobbyists who actually care about crap like DirectX. If I want to play a game, I'll use my boy's X-Box.
-ccm