I need help

[Lissa]

Thanks to you each, I have already had in the works, with an eye to Starcraft 2 and Diablo III, a leap into the iChips on Gigabytes newer boards. What is critical for me is to have a set up that my Windows XP Pro HD and all my crap will run on, for a while, so my wife has her stuff and I don't have to be arsed with a lot of time consuming events teaching her something new. That is worth money to me.

I have a board and processor in the mail, 300 bucks, which keeps me in business for the next six months before I get a completely new rig, ground up, with a pretty new MoBoard. I will probably ask for some ideas i October, as I am mulling over what I want and what I want to spend on it.

Current "next purchase" is the laptop for my son, senior in hight school, that should take him into third or fourht year of college.

Occhi

Right now I'm in wait and hold to see what happens with the new LGA 1156 coming from Intel on whether it will have legs and will be around for a good while to come or whether it will eventually die off with upcoming die shrink and additional processor cores being added into the CPU package. I need Intel to give more information about this to determine whether the next rig will go with LGA 1366 or LGA 1156 (1156 is the more budget friendly, but the core i7s are also looking at using LGA 1156 along with LGA 1366). Atleast I have till late October to really start looking at a decision when Windows 7 comes out (will probably also be the time when Nvidia and ATI-AMD come out with the next generation of video cards as well).