Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou
I wouldn't get Vista yet. The early testing I've seen actually shows current games run somewhat slower on Vista than XP.


Here's the system that I should be getting delivered tomorrow.

I went with the 4400+ because it's much better than my current single core 3200+ and as long as I have an AM2 board, I can easily upgrade to faster processors when the prices fall.

Also, if I were you, I'd get the 8800 now- it should stomp 2x7600's in performance and I think it's priced reasonably for what you'd be getting.
Well, my new upgrade has gone horribly.... I got it yesterday, unboxed it, added DVD-R, SATA HD, vid card ect. Booted my XP install disk and everything seemed to go fine. When I tried to apply SP2- it failed. I looked in the event log and it was full of errors. Eventually, I try to reinstall and things just seem to get worse... random restarts during XP install, blue screens, corrupt files all in an almost seemingly random fashion.

I tried a new HD, new RAM, vid card, different CD-Rom, different XP CD... pretty much everything I can think of. The only thing left is the mobo/CPU. So I call the vendor's support and have to jump through hoops for them so they can conclude it's probably something on the mobo. So now I have to RMA the mobo, CPU and RAM for testing and will get to spend the evening tearing the guts out of my new system and boxing them up and then reconstituting my old system so I'll have something to use until this is sorted out.