Yeah, I can't complain about the mileage on this. The build originally had Vista and a GTX 260. I'll likely keep plugging along with this until the CPU or motherboard dies, or until I win the lottery. Might be a while; my very first build from 2005 is still running nicely in our bedroom - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (socket 939).Wow that's some impressive mileage you've gotten from the E8500, I had a GTX 460 with an E8400 and when I upgraded to a Core i5 760 I noticed a really good bump in performance. With a 480 you should notice it even more if you upgrade the CPU, especially in games that use quad core.