Started the boot of the Vista64 DVD at 4:54pm, and at 6:10pm I started the long copy-over of my data. That's after full Vista install and update, plus installing the motherboard and video drivers and enabling Quad SLI (and all the reboots required by all those steps). Not too bad!

It was made easier by the fact that I was using a Vista DVD with Service Pack 1 already included, plus I preloaded a USB thumb drive with the SP2 cumulative download + all my drivers.

I didn't have time to try anything super taxing. EQ2 is giving great framerates but it did before too. The EQ2 client engine is aging and doesn't perform all that well on any machine. I did fire up LOTRO and wow - yeah - ~190FPS with absolutely everything turned on and up, and that's in the middle of Bree (a hugely busy area).

Definitely happy with a no-DOA fairly smooth build. And it's reliable. Temps are not "great", but given I have 2 fire-breathing video cards sitting in there, they're probably the best I'm going to get without extreme measures.