You're most likely on the money about the cost. For gaming, AMD does beat out the Pentium, but I would have to buy (probably)an ASUS mother board with probably a AMD 2800+ or higher Chip. Not to mention having to overclock the chip, getting a cooling heat sink. Then having to either buy a new HD or reformat my current one to wipe out intel's junk on it. I would just rather upgrade for now.