So yes, $500 worth of equipment and 48 hours later and I now have a (practically) brand new desktop setup. I took the old desktop my parents had bought when I was in junior high (aka 10 years ago) and completely gutted it, tossed in a couple paychecks worth of brand new parts and BAM! I now have a top of the line custom setup.

The Specs:
Asus M5A88-V Evo Motherboard
AMD Phenom II Black Edition Multi-Core Processor
Asus PCE-N10 PCI-E Adapter
Kingston 8GB DDR3 Memory
MSI R5450 Graphics Card
Coolermaster 600W Extreme Power Plus Power Supply
Logitech LS11 2.0 Stereo Speakers
Windows 7 Ultimate

I'm currently in the process of downloading and re-installing all of the programs and other things required to run everything, so it'll probably take a little while longer to get back to business as usual. The other good news is that I MAY just be able to grab another couple monitors to create my tri-screen setup that I've been dreaming over for years, and I FINALLY have a system that can run it! Hooray!

This also means that in a few days I'll be able to start working on the commissions I have already. I'd like to thank everyone once again for their patience through this, and I assure you that I will be back to working diligently on your projects ASAP.