Well push finally came to shove, and I will be getting the parts for a new PC today. After reading about the mild to nonexistent performance improvements and surprising heat problems in the fourth-gen Intel CPUs I indeed opted for a previous-gen 3570 CPU and sprung a little extra for an ASUS Sabertooth motherboard. For a long time now I've been determined to have an SSD boot drive in my next build, so I am doing that, which should be fun, and should combine with that motherboard to make for surprisingly quick boot times.

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