Well, this overgrown country-bumpkin corn-husker bass-ackwards town doesn't have any computer shops that sell processors or that carry "high-end" stuff like a core i7 920. So nobody in town can flash my BIOS. So I'm sending the motherboard off to Gigabyte to repair. Guess it'll be a week before I have a chance to power up the computer, and another week or two before I get the loops set up and running.

On another note, it's amazing what a difference the lighting makes on the cable color. In the basement, it's tough to distinguish the dark blue from the black color, but outside in bright sunlight, the colors just POP out.