Hehe, I share your excitement - just got me a brand new Core i7-920, running at
2.793 GHz (officially 2.666, but CPU and mainboard seem to agree that cooling
is far sufficient to run at 21x clock speed, even when POV-Ray is blasting away
on 8 virtual CPUs simultaneously - 4 cores * hyperthreading - at a room ambient
temperature of cozy 32 deg. celsius.)

Needed to reinstall though: I had my local PC dealer install Windows 7 RC on it,
but never having gone through the Vista experience before I found it to be a
total PITA - drivers & software installation trouble on end joining forces with
a totally unaccustomed user interface and localization scheme to drive me nuts;
so I'm trying with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition now. So far it's playing
quite fair - despite seemingly using a similar localization scheme as Vista, but
at least it's not teaming up with other nasties as far as I can see.

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