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There is also usually a second slot on the top of the motherboard underneath the keyboard.

Meh thats MS for ya :roll: But my opionion for Vista is kept within the boundaries of MS products in general. The certification is BS but its not like its the first time a large computer company has done something like that. In regards to the price how much was XP Pro on launch?

I rather liked Vista aside from the firewall. I liked the start menu because of the active searchingas I type. I would complain about the UAC but I just turned it off lol, it didn't ask me to confirm anything afterwards. On top of this Aero may be a resource whore, but I'm running windows blinds anyways cuz I'm a sucker for a pretty desktop. My only real problems are that the Nvidia drivers for it are buggy, the firewall sucked, and the new boot menu is setup different from all previous window's boot. So none of the commands work and finding the advanced boot options was a total pain. Any upgrades of machines at my house will depend highly on the amount of work they have done by release time. anyways just my mho

Which mobo did you go with Rab? Im running a Gigabyte Ds3 myself and heard alot of good things about the Asus p5w dh.

I usually look for the most stable chipset knowing what else Im going to be running, esp for Ram when overclocking. I also tend to look for quality brand names for their known reliability and warranty support. I've had some really good and some really bad experiences trying to get parts RMA'd from different companies. As to onboard options, I myself prefer to get 7.1 onboard sound because I'm to cheap to spend 150 bucks on a sound card. I also make sure to get lots of pin headers on the board for usb and firewire that way I can always add more connections through my case or extra pci slots at a later time. I also look for boards with heatpipes instead of case fans because I hate those little buggers so much. Of course you wouldn't want this is you were mounting it in an inverted setup like some of the cooler master server cases and the Lian Li cases. One last thing as for hard drives you really oughta check out the new seagate 7200.10 perpendicular recording drives. MMMMM so fast.