The parts are on order.

Case: Antec P183
Motherboard: MSI 790X-GD70
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955BE
Video Card: XFX Radeon 5770
Memory: Mushkin 4GB DDR3 1600 RAM 7-7-6-18
HDD: Western Digital SE16 Blue 640GB
PSU: Seasonic X-650 Gold
Heatsink: Noctua U12P
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64BIT
Fans:
(a) 2x Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120MM
(b) 1x Noctua NF-P12-1300 120MM
(c) 1x Noctua NF-S12B FLX 120MM

Total after taxes and shipping and such: $1439.48

I called in some outstanding debts to be able to afford a bit more than my previous budget, and I'm glad with the quality of parts I got. I'm pretty excited, especially about the PSU, but that part is on backorder, I don't know when it will ship or get in stock. So it's a mystery as to when I can do anything.

I got a side, one-off web-job building a website. It's gonna be small, won't yield me much, but it will be good to get into the swing of things again.

I may as well add in some hints about my YIR2009 that I've been slowly(slowly like molasses) building. Here are some tracks that I've been impressed by lately:

I Quit Girls
60 Feet Tall
Mature Fantasy

I'll get back to you all with a better update than this. I'm pretty bored.

Question 1 in Maine has repealed same-sex marriage.

I swear, if Obama doesn't end up repealing DOMA, this may be the first time a democrat has been in presidency and not only unable to allow equal rights to same sex couples(as he stated he would attempt to do), but to have numerous high-coverage losses in the equality movement(Prop 8, Maine's Q1, and the upcoming Connecticut and Massachusetts bills that will soon be proposed so as to take advantage of this current momentum).

Sorry for you Americans out here, but I chalk this up as one reason my country is better than yours. We accept. We may not like some things, but so long as they do not infringe on our rights and freedoms, we let people choose their own destiny. It's called tolerance, and no amount of words or stories can help many areas in the USA in that regard. It also doesn't help when people play on fear and lies to propel people into voting for something they don't truly undeerstand(however, it's people's own fault if they fall for those stupid Yes on 1 ads and their fallacious claims).

This news, right on the heels of victory as one of my friends was finally cleared in an agonizing court battle that's left him stranded in house curfew for a year and away from his home and friends. Tonight was supposed to be a night to celebrate, instead it just depresses me.

So I was writing a hueg post when my bro's PC crashed(the one I'm using off and on while I wait for parts to come in or whatnot), so I'll keep it a bit shorter this time. My PC is dead; there are some toasted capacitors on the mobo, and after a long string of part failures in the past, this finally did it in. RIP Lazycakes.

So I need a new one now. I have money set aside for it, so it's not that huge of a deal, but I'd hoped it woul d last until after xmas because it would be better financially that way. However, it didn't so I suppose I need to do it now.

I've done some heavy research and have found some parts I really like, but as always, there are some key components I'm not sure of.

I'll lay out the parts I'm seriously looking at here, with some other ideas in case I need to cut prices:

PSU:
A) Seasonic X-650 Gold ($200)
b) Antec Truepower New 750 ($130)
c) Corsair TX-750 ($120)

Graphics Card:
A) Any Radeon 5770 model ($170-195)
b) A Radeon 5850 model, but I'd need to cut costs elsewhere ($305-335)
c) I keep my current undamaged 7600GT for now. ($0)

RAM:
A) Mushkin Blackline 4GB(2x2GB) DDR3 1600 ($134)
b) Gskill 4GB(2x2GB) DDR3 1600 ($93)
c) Something comparable that I haven't listed that you recommend

Case:
A) Antec P183 ($135)
b) I keep my Antec SLK3800 case and hope it's good enough. ($0)

HDD:
A) Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB ($60-70)

Those parts are solid. I'm aiming for a quiet, efficient machine, that's upgradeable, so those all work. Now, I can, as you can see, keep some current parts and still have it functional...the obvious choice being my case(as wonky as it is, it works).

I haven't listed processors because that's what I'm stuck on. Do I go AM3 and low-cost as AMD is probably going to support AM3 for a few more years(two, probably), or do I look at Intel's 1366 line that's very very very expensive? I don't think I could take a 1156 chipset simply because they're already being phased out(unless you have proof otherwise).

So that's the decision I have to make. Do I go for an AMD build, or an Intel build? I'll do some cost comparisons:

AMD Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE ($180-210)
AMD Motherboard: MSI 790FX GD70 ($180)

Intel Processor: Intel Core i7-920 ($310)
Intel Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R ($210)

If 1156 is supposed to stick around(and not have incompatible revisions like 1156B and 1156C) then I'll definitely consider that chipset because it looks mighty fine, but as is I think I'll be going AMD for my money's sake.

So hard to make decisions like this quickly.