[goth_fiend]

you take a raidmax sagitta case....



add a thermaltake 850watt modular power supply...



an asus crosshair motherboard...



8 gigs of corsiar xms ddr2 ram (fuck you crysis!)...



an amd athlon 64x2 5000+ processor...



one evga nvidia 8800gts (512mb g92) video card...



a western digital raptor x, caviar 500gb and lightscribe dvd burner (sata ftw, fuck you ide!)



and the most badass speakers mouse and keyboards out there today, from the pc kings logitech?!



and add in a monster badass moniter from gateway (of all places!?)



I'll tell you what you get!....an utterly useless pile of parts until my copy of windows vista ultimate comes in the mail, until then Im stuck staring at the awesome that this machine will be...most epic picstory is on the way soon...

[Zepp88]

Looks like you'll get an awesome peice of hardware running buggy software that eventually you'll have to down(up)grade back to XP.

[darren]

OMG!!! NO FLOPPY DRIVE!?!?

[Zepp88]

Originally Posted by darren

OMG!!! NO FLOPPY DRIVE!?!?

You guys are still using those in Canada?

[goth_fiend]

8gb flash drive ftw!

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Zepp88

Looks like you'll get an awesome peice of hardware running buggy software that eventually you'll have to down(up)grade back to XP.

I don't know why everyone bashes Vista so much. My new PC has Vista and I turned off all the annoying things I didn't like about it and it's more compatible with old software than XP is because of its ability to simulate Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and so on, and run programs in "256 colors," etc. which are all things XP couldn't do.

Overall, I prefer XP, but I think the hatred for Vista is over the top. The 4 problems I had with Vista when I first started mostly turned out to be more benefits of Vista than disadvantages (I couldn't get this program to work and it turned out that in XP, you installed the drivers from the CD, but Vista automatically installs the drivers for you and if you try to install the drivers from the CD that double-installs the drivers. So I uninstalled the software, reinstalled the software but not the drivers, and it worked better than it had ever worked in XP).

I'm not a "fan," but I'm not a hater either by any means.

[zimbloth]

Naren quick question, would that excellent compatibility ability be the case even in the 64 bit version of Vista? I'd like to install XP64 or Vista 64 because certain programs like Sonar see nice performance increases, but I don't want to have a million conflicts either.

[Zepp88]

Umm...XP has the "old version" compatibility...

[Naren]

Originally Posted by zimbloth

Naren quick question, would that excellent compatibility ability be the case even in the 64 bit version of Vista? I'd like to install XP64 or Vista 64 because certain programs like Sonar see nice performance increases, but I don't want to have a million conflicts either.

I'm not an expert on Vista or anything. I'm only relatively familiar with the version I have - Windows Vista Home Basic and I have no idea whether mine is 32 bit or 64 bit because it came with my PC. I've only had it for about 3 months now.

Originally Posted by Zepp88

Umm...XP has the "old version" compatibility...

True, but it sometimes didn't work that well. On my last PC I tried running a game I own with the "Windows 95" and "256 colors" thing selected and it still had all the colors bleeding through in weird shades of green. On Vista, it appeared that same thing before I changed the compatibility, but appeared exactly how it had for me in 96-97 when I changed it to "Win 95" and "256 colors."

And it seems to have more options on that menu.

[ibznorange]

Originally Posted by Zepp88

Umm...XP has the "old version" compatibility...

which is buggier than all of georgias swamps. im with naren.

id put a bit more into the proc dude. you spent bucks on faster lower latency ram, but its going to bottleneck at the proc. repeat with some raid 1/5/10 hdd works. all in all nice ass setup though