can remember the days gone by when I was budget gamer. Not so much for the reason of cash flow but more for the fact that my monitor wasn't good enough to play at higher resolutions. Back then just about every 8 months to a year new LCD monitors were launched with increased resolutions. My first LCD monitors resolution was 1024 x 768 within one year the newest monitors were supporting resolutions of 1680 x 1050 but they were expensive and I couldn't justify the upgrade due to the fact my monitor was only one year old. Needless to say by the time I actually upgraded to a 1080p monitor they had been out for a year. (I am speaking of my personal rig not my test rig)