For those of you that don't know, my current gaming rig is an Intel Q6600 in a Shuttle case, with an ATI HD 4850 (with the CPU and GPU water cooled). I don't care very much that the Q6600 isn't bleeding-edge (at all, let alone any more), my "big problem" is I'm stuck with a small graphics card (physically speaking) by the Shuttle case, and my 4850 is showing it's age in X-Plane 9; I dread to think how it'll be in XP10.
Getting a new GPU also means a new mobo, case and PSU. So, what with the global recession and all, my new gaming rig will have to be a re-hashing of many of the parts I already have, but the first piece of the puzzle just fell into my possession: an Asus Striker II Extreme motherboard, via eBay (a little minor cosmetic damage, but otherwise the full kit that this mobo shipped with two years ago when it was new).
Now I just need new memory (the Striker takes DDR3, my Shuttle is DDR2), a new case, a new PSU and (eventually...) a new GPU.