yeah, it's insane. I literally didn't think it was going to take long at all.

I figured I had already built and tweaked the os, so no big deal - just load up some apps, vsts, efx etc. - couple of hours tops.

Started at 9:00am this morning and am just finishing up now - almost 12 hours to properly reinstall all my programs.

That's why I am so happy I bought a mobo that can handle a quad core -
some time next year I will upgrade to the quad, overclock and not have to go through this for 4 years (I hope)

so you don't reinstall your computer for couple years at a time? just curious because thats what i'm planning lol

yeah, this last computer (Pentium IV 3.0ghz) last about 3.5 years.
I really didn't do to much to it after the initial install (besides upgrades, patches etc.)

I just ran a quick test with my new machine. Loaded up a song that pegged my older machine at 95% cpu usage - crackles and pops etc.
The new machine (which is a dual core) shows both cores at 20% at most!!
Amazing!!