Hi Chris..
Yup.. an interesting and expensive journey!

I haven't delved into a fraction of what the motherboard is capable of doing and probably never will.

Overclockers would love it as would those with more HD's than money and the only conceivable drawback I can see is for users who want to go DDR3 as this isn't supported. The new PSU is guaranteed for 5 years which suits me and the E8400 is exactly what I expected

The only disappointment has been the £2.48 ps2 to USB male A adapter which came today and doesn't appear to work

This is no great hardship but means I need 2 mice.. one for the KVM and one for the new system. Not sure if it's because the mouse is already USB and uses the included USB-PS2 male adapter to fit the KVM front panel.. the rear being PS2 so it's going USB to PS2 to PS2 out to PS2/USB in that's the issue but there you go. Plug it into the back via the KVM lead and don't get a dong-ding. Plug the USB mouse directly into the PC and I get the dong-ding. I know the PS2 mouse IN on the KVM lead works so it's either the adapter or the fact that this is one conversion too many
FSX.. well, yeh.. FSX runs ok but for me, FS9 runs better and that's the important thing
ATB
DaveB
