I finally built my new system and decided to install the
latest NVIDIA 197.13 drivers from NVIDIA. Having not played
StarCraft II yet, I thought it would be a good game to test out the system with. Lo and behold, the game would crash all the time right after boot.
Turns out, after
reading this thread, that the new NVIDIA drivers are causing issues with the beta. I've sent off the error to NVIDIA so hopefully they can get a response back to me quickly and get this resolved so I can continue with my Zerg rushing.