Thanks for the input from both of you.  I was always an XP guy, was laid up in bed when Vista came out, was still able to read Max PC, PC Gamer, etc and  read some pretty bad reviews about Vista and gaming.  I was told to get the 64 bit version and DDR 3 if I was really serious about games.  I am not at all sure about Vista yet, to soon to tell, but UT 111, Far Cry 2,  Crysis, Battlefield 2 and a few other look really great since I can turn on all the eye candy and still get very fast frame rates.  However, I was disappointed to find that none of my Quake series, along with a lot of others, will not run but they were made before Vista even came out and it turns out that most will not met me run because it is 64 bit.  Additionally, some weird things happen like UT just stops working many times for no apparent reason, system is running very cool, etc and other strange things happen like a second mouse cursor appears in the middle of several games and I cannot make it go away, just sits in the middle of the screen while I am playing.  Don't know if that is a Vista problem, or more likely I have screwed up something.  I also have a Killer Nic card in this thing and it is optimized for games.  I have read it is completely worthless to a great asset.  I have a lousy DSL line with very slow download time but my ping is always less that 100, usually less that 50.  Is that good?  If it is, why would my DL times be so poor?

On a strange note, since I loved the original Unreal so much, I found one on E Bay and tried to load it thinking no way.  It works fine!!  I was hoping I could find some of the old maps that you could download for that  game, they had some great ones like a bathroom map that was so weird, but I can't find very much on it.  Just thought it was odd that such an old game would run so well on a system and OS that came out a decade latter!![b:b2ade12136][/b:b2ade12136]