Cheaper...no. Easier, yes. I always planned to do this some day as I will be constantly upgrading components, and I can spend the 500+ on a new machine or new components for my PC. So yea, new components. Besides, don't have the cash atm.

I always knew it was possible, just check out the link I provided in the original post (same game I'm workin with and everything). Zenga: Thank you for giving me a more refined search term.That softxpand, http://www.miniframe.com/solutions/home-users.html might be exactly what I need as it even mentions handling games. I might even be able to find something free with a little more searching. Unfortunately, I'm at work so I won't be able to provide any results until tonight, but I will do my best to share my results on this thread.

As for my PC...I'm hoping it will be able to handle the task. q6600 (I just recently had to reset the BIOS, so it's stock clocked now, but I used to have it OC'd @3.0 and will again if needs be for this project), 780i mobo, GTX 580 FTW hydro copper 2 (no additional OC), 4GB DDR2 (possibly 8GB, the other two stick I'm not sure about working order), 128GB Intel SSD and 750gb HDD, CPU and GPU watercooled. In lieu of a second monitor I will be using my 50" LG tv, using a miniHDMI-to-HDMI cable. So, for those who can't tell, my latest upgrade was the 580. It's a beast and should last awhile, but as NVidia tech support told me when I couldn't get SCII to play, "It's like a dragster trying to run down the track, pulling a crate of bricks." in reference to the "syngery" between GPU and Mobo. So yea, enough graphics power, but the next upgrade will be to my mobo/cpu/ram.

My only real planned outcome for this project is to play DiabloIII. I know they purposely made it to not be a terribly taxing resource hog, so I'm hoping I can do alright with it...as well, I read on this site that you can actually delegate which CPU cores each instance o the game will run on...Perhaps that's software specific, but if anyone knows an easy way to do this (if it even needs to be done?), let me know.