My desktop computron is failing.
It's almost 6 years old, so... it's getting to be time.
Currently using the wife's laptop to pop in and say "Howdy!", and research the cost of components to build a new machine.
Looking at an Asus Sabertooth motherboard, a Core i7 3770k "Ivy Bridge" processor, 32-GB of RAM (still researching whether to use 16-GB or 32-GB), a modern graphics card (my old Geforce 8800 GTS 512 is, well, old).
And a new case (current case is a mini-tower, and already cramped, and the Sabertooth motherboard is an Extended ATX form factor, so it won't fit).
Not looking forward to spending the do-re-mi, but I feel halved without my digital buddy.
Will reuse everything else (monitors, keyboard, mouse, hard drives, etc).
Also will be upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit (Ableton Suite 9 is coming out in a few months, and it has been re-coded for 64-bit, and they have a decent upgrade discount for us users who have Ableton Suite 8 )
Will let you know how it goes.