Actually, I spoke too soon with that last post. The machine's crashing got worse and more frequent - to the point that I actually lost the week's worth of e-mail I'd accrued while working on the new machine - I can probably recover it if I really wanted to - but nah... too much hassle. Nothing really imperative anyway.

I installed the new MSI mobo on January 24th and it's been running like a champ since. I shut it off during the time I was TDY (for almost 2 weeks), but right back on when I got home, and it's been doing great. The temps are acceptable, and the machine seems to run great. I'm not so keen on the on-board sound card - it's not nearly as nice as the on-board ASUS puts on their mobos. It doesn't suck so bad that I feel the need to get an add-on sound card or anything... it just has a weird 'decrecendoing-fluttering' sound when the tunes wind-down during the fade-out. The software equalizer is tougher to make friends with as well - I've actually got the Winamp equalizer set 'flat' and the soundcard EQ running it's 'Powerful' settings... which sounds good... but still not as good as it did with the ASUS.

Other than that - the machine's a beast! It runs UT3 like nobody's business, and seems to do everything else just fine as well. I've got the majority of my stuff migrated over (minor stuff left now) and should be ready to build the new webserver out of BigDawg (next week after the CISSP test kicks my ass) and make the rest of my transitions happen.