With the games you play .. Hardly ever. And No Vista is NOT good os at all. Xp is far superier and runs alot more efficently esp for games. Epicly Bias (I dislike Vista my self, XP user) but w/ SP1 it's not THAT bad now. If you don't have a high spec PC, you'll have problems, (you need atleast 2gb of RAM to run Vista smoothly). With those upgrades, OP, you have nothing to worry about. I've got to agree. The big problems with vista is when you have a pc that has the minimum, or even medium requirements for it, because as you said vista is a huge resource hog. The biggest bugs are pretty much worked out, and sp1 really isn't that bad. I'd still go for xp, but vista is starting to look alot better. Hello Stalkers. Nice too meet you. Seeming as you dont know what the hell I've used OS wise and have used Vista enough to know how bad it is. Thanks. Stalking is fun :twss: