Well we managed to fill up my original thread, and since there`s still so much to explore in the ongoing development of the PC you`ve all helped me to build, here`s the new place to follow the growth of Bessie. Lilith asked in the shouty about my power supply. It`s a Corsair CMPSU - 750TX. She also asked me to include a dxdiag, but I`ll have to add that in a bit. With the upgrade to an i7 2600k CPU, and a tower type fan, I`ve got lots of tweaking to do. I`m not going to push any limits here