I too paid a lot of money for an Area 51 (2011 one, not the crazy ass triangle one). Since the buy I've only put in a new GPU. Its broken down about 5 times... 2 year insurance is ending this August. I think I'll just upgrade it as I go.
I probably will get win 10. Apparently it has stuff like divx 12 and Cortana (God help us all with that she devil)