And yay, I do bid farewell to my old AMD Sempron. It's 1.8Ghz has served me well for the last 4 years. It's comerades of the 400Mhz RAM and the AGP 6600 are also retired.
Somehow Santa belived the stories that I had been a good boy. So along with a freak planetary alignment that caused my employer to pay me a huge sum of cash, I did head off to Scan. And there I did buy manny goodies

Finaly the parts I brought of Fade last summer have been given life once again.
Behold!
Intel core 2 Duo E84000 3Ghz duel core 1333Mhz FSB
2Gig Corsair Balistic ram
Nvidia 9800 GTX+ 512Mb
A couple of 320Gb Hitachi deskstars
650W psu
Soundblaster X-fi
A couple of nearly matching Samsung DVD RW
And all wrapped up in a Coolermaster CM-690 V2
All I've got to do now is patently wait for the all the software to install and update

On the down side, I no longer have a valid excuse for sucking at TF2 - damm.