I am fed up with my seven-year-old Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE system. So today I bought several PC hardware components to build a new system. I got a sweet deal on an Intel® Core™2 Quad Q8200 CPU; I know, it isn't anywhere near the best, but it's all I could afford for now. This old LGA775 chip needed a new motherboard, so I got the ASUS P5G41T-M LX PLUS - perhaps the last of it's kind that can be found with the legendary Intel® G41 chipset (tried and proven).

I fortified the new system with 4GB of DDR3 1066 RAM; I only went with four GB because I want to stay in a Windows 7 32-bit environment for now.

Luckily, my old power supply and video card will still work to run this new setup. My old ATX tower has the capability of housing a uATX Form Factor motherboard in it too - so I am saving money by recycling a lot of my older components to get this new system up-and-running.

Hopefully, I will get some better performance and stability out of this new build.