Almost a year and half. Spent nearly $4000 Australian dollars on the tower alone (Q9550 / 4 gb ddr3 / 4870x2 / 2TB hdd array etc) then another $2200 on a 46" tv at the same time, plus another 2 or 3 thousand for furnature, oh and I got a PS3 while I was at it. (All planned/purchased/assembled by me, except my mate helped put the tower together (to be faster, not due to lack of experience). Runs vista 64 and it still works flawlessly. I just uploaded a pic of my setup for another thread, so here it is anyway http://imgur.com/6nikS