And to pre-emptively answer the “What kind of new upgrade are you getting?” questions, here’s the new rig. Most of this stuff isn’t top-of-the-line to save a little up-front money, since I was only planning on upgrading my old box, but it’s more than serviceable, and it’s pretty future-proof as far as upgrades go; I’ll be able to buy AMD processor upgrades for this box for a good long while (yay AM3 processors being backward compatible!)

• MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard (AMD 790FX chipset)
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.5GHz Brisbane core)
• 2GB G.Skill PC2-8500 (DDR2-1066) RAM
• Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.0GB/s HDD
• GigaByte ATi Radeon HD 3870

A lot of people will probably scoff that I went AMD this round… but like I said, future-proofing. Intel Nehalem comes out at the end of this year, and it’s basically a dead stop for anything Intel because they’re changing so much about the architecture. Plus, I like supporting the underdog when I can, and i figure figure processor diversification is good.