The new board came in a week ago, and I was able to get everything up and running without an issue. Unfortunately, with my brother living in Ohio, and me outside Chicago, I had to hand it off Sunday while he was in town. I got Windows 7 ultimate loaded, all the drivers and everything, MS Office '10, and a few random programs, but it still needs a bunch more things before it's 100% fully ready to go.
I goofed with the Blu Ray burner, and ended up getting an OEM drive, when my intention was to get a retail drive. Oh well, no biggie. I'm sure I can find some freeware, or cheap software that will work fine for him.
Also, I set up the same desktop gadgets that i use on my PC and laptop, and I didn't get CoreTemp installed, so the CPU gadget isn't reporting temps yet, but that isn't a biggie. The GPU gadget though, isn't working at ALL right now with the 6870. And come to think of it, my 4870 doesn't work to well with it either. I wonder if it just doesn't play well with ATI cards or what, because my laptops 8800M GTS reports perfectly, no issues at all.
