I'm still stuck with my 4+ year old 8800gtx that has died 6 times (I keep throwing it in the oven to reflow the solder). I'm intensely curious if I'll need any hardware-side preparation upon release. Hopefully, my [censored] 17inch monitor and an OC'd Core2 (3.6ghz) might keep me from having to resort to money-intensive tweaks.

i just bought a new system, specs below:

EVGA Classified Super Record 2 -motherboard, Dual QPI LGA1366 Xeon
2 x Intel Xeon X5690 -prosixr, 3.46GHz
2 x Noctua NH-U12P SE2 -prosixr cooler
48GB DDR3 1600MHz Ram
2 x 120GB SSD (Raid 1/0)
4 x 2TB SATA II -hard-drive
2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX590, 3GB -graphics card
Blu-ray -disc bay
Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe 7.1 -sound card
Lian Li PC-V2120B -case
1500W -powersupply

i will do nothing exept that ^^

I just used canned air to clean out all the dust. I just built this computer a few months back and keep everything up to date and clutter free all the time anyways.

Can...can I touch it? *drools*

Madman or troll ?

Hey, if I won the lotto, you can bet my spec-sheet would be right up there, too.

Absolutely! I mean madman as a compliment, lotto or no!

I wasn't going to do a thing, but I ran an experimental anti-malware script (just out of curiosity, not because of an infection) and toasted DirectX. DirectX games now won't run in fullscreen. That's clearly not acceptable and I haven't been able to fix it. Therefore, I'm reinstalling Windows 7 tonight. This is a good thing. It cleans out all the junk, negates the need for a defrag, and lets me clean install newer versions of MS's programming tools.

I do intend to build a new PC late this year or early next year, partially because of Skyrim and partially for doing work, but it can wait until I can easily spare the cash.