an i5-2500k, 8 gigs of RAM, 650W PSU, a new mobo and case with numbers and things i dont have memorized off the top of my head.
for whatever reason, windows installs like to be hardware specific. Never had that problem with Linux.
it seems to be slowly fixing itself with every restart. I'm still probably going to go with Windows 7 after tomorrow.
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