[HammerSandwich]

You guys aren't the only ones still watching this thread.

Yes, WHS kicks butt. I'm excited to see what Vail offers, but the entirely new storage model will make me a slow adopter.

Definitely loving Win7 x64. I think it's more stable than XP, uses RAM better, etc. And it knows how to handle my Vertex 60GB, which has been a shockingly huge upgrade. I get a lot of mileage from the keyboard shortcuts to move & resize windows too.

Watercooling has been retired, at least for the time being. When I went 775 a couple years ago, the G4 Storm required machining, and I'm a lazy bastard. The daily office PC conked out a while back, so I bought a Newegg combo with a Gigabyte 785G and Athlon II 245. The stock HSF is actually good enough! With Speedfan holding it below 700rpm, I can't hear it and CPU temps stay fine.

We've come a long way in the last 5 years, which probably explains the activity level around here.