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With my media center BIOS refusing to boot without freshly reset CMOS values it was time for an upgrade. Since I hardly ever use it, I decided to cannibalize my primary system and use the motherboard/CPU/RAM as my new media center. The 6 core processor means my InfiniTV card gets a core for each tuner with 2 extra for the OS. The performance index got a healthy upgrade and there is a noticeable difference in speed when flipping between screens in media center now. While I professed my elimination of a primary PC to Senator Kelley as a religious awakening, and accepted that I no longer needed one, I secretly secured a deal on new hardware which was actually slightly slower than my old system. Of note in the new system is a graphical UEFI BIOS which attempts to bring user friendliness to BIOS setup, a domain so far exclusive to nerds. We'll see how this progresses, but I prefer the old text-based setup and shake my fist at this development.