I decided to try Vista-64; I'd been thinking about going 64-bit for a while, and since Vista's been out for a while now - and MS has been pushing the hardware manufacturers to support its new baby - I suspect there are fewer driver problems with Vista64 than XP64.
Sure enough, it all installed with no problems whatsoever. As I've been reinstalling all my old apps, I'm finding just the odd one or two that won't run in Vista (or at least 64-bit Vista), but I'll probably just keep a 32-bit XP installation in a VM in case I really need any of them at some point.
I have to say I was sceptical at first, but after using it for several days now, I have come to the conclusion that much of the Vista paranoia is FUD, or perhaps the early-adopter pains have been addressed by recent updates (the version I installed included SP1).
Thus far, I'm lovin' it.
]]>Time for a new motherboard.
Of course, nobody makes MoBo's that take Socket 939 processors or DDR memory any more, so it became time for an upgrade.
As luck would have it, Fry's had some pretty decent bundles on sale for the Labor Day weekend, and I picked up a Gigabyte GA-M790X-DS4 board, Phenom 9750 Quad, and 4GB of DDR2/800. Sweet.
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