GA-7VTXE+, going on seven years thanks to Badcaps

I am typing this on a nearly seven-year-old PC built on the Gigabyte GA-7VTXE+, which is the same as the GA-7VTXE except with the IDE interface upgraded from ATA100 to ATA133. It is, amazingly, still running about as well as it did when I built it back in February of 2002. However, if not for Badcaps.net, it would have died about two years ago. Hooray for Badcaps!

My story is probably similar to what others have shared here, but I think it's worth telling anyway. My PC had been a stable workhorse for the first 4 1/2...