The order has been placed!

[Memnok]

For Christmass this year my wife is letting me upgrade the computer (check out my signature to see what I'm typing on at the moment). It is a 478 socket, so I'm really starting over, not upgrading.

Anyway, I placed the order yesterday for my new hardware:

• GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6
  
• Intel Q6600
  
• Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) PC-8500
  
• Western Digital SE16 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
  
• GIGABYTE Radeon HD 3870 512MB
  
• Cool Master Real Power Pro 750W PSU
  
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
  

About the only thing I'm keeping from my old system is the case, Sony DVD-R/RW drive, and one of the EIDE hadr drives for backup storage.

I'm still looking into 32 vs 64 bit Vista.

 

[Yeungster]

Thats a nice system you have lined up. Is thre any particular reason you're going for ultimate rather than home premium? Could save yourself some money there (if you're bothered of course )

 

[Luigi]

then you could go 4gb, vista really is a hog.

 

[Rastalovich]

For Christmass this year my wife is letting me .....

Thanks m8, that made my day :rollingla

 

[JN]

Thanks m8, that made my day :rollingla

:awhip:

 

[SuB]

id have to agree with the drop ultimate get 4gb comment. it seems like a sweetspot for me

(i recommend 64bit also)

 

[llwyd]

Yea most people (including myself) eventually get annoyed with the bloated content of the more expensive Vista versions and end up stripping them down for performance with apps like Vlite.

I would go for the cheapest OS you can get away with and get more memory with the saved money

Knit picking there though, I'm sure you wont be disappointed with a rig like that either way

 

[Memnok]

Thats a nice system you have lined up. Is thre any particular reason you're going for ultimate rather than home premium? Could save yourself some money there (if you're bothered of course )

I already have ultimate. I got it when it was released. I had installed it on my old system, but as you can imagine, it was not a pleasant experience. So I can strip it down if needed.

I plan to get another 2g of ram in the near future (my B-day is in Feb).