New games are surprising.

I have an old motherboard with an AGP slot. Probably that's why my last upgrade was a couple of years ago. The graphics card is a Radeon 9600, 128MB. I have less than 1GB of RAM. The processor is an old 3GHz Athlon. Multi-core? What are cores?

If you're having money problems, these things can usually be taken from an old computer.

Uh, Nazg, I live only half an hour away from Moscow by train, and I use this "advantage" every day, but... am I such a country bumpkin, and is it common for people in Moscow to throw hard drives, RAM, and motherboards into the trash every six months, buying a new computer? O_O
And monitors?... and new internet providers every time?...