Got it!
New PC is installed. Works like a dream so far.
Here it is:
CPU: Intel I7 920
GPU: XFX Radeon 4890 "xXx" (Hmmmmmm...)
RAM: 6Gb
Blueray player
HDD: 1 Tb+ an extra 1 Tb installed by me
Vista64, free upgrade to Win7
I set up all my machines according to a certain concept, determining names and other things such as wallpapers.
1. My old PC had a Sci Fi theme, so I called it Liar, from a general products spaceship in "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. The disk partitions were called "Canyon (C: )", "Down (D: )", "Kzin (K: )" and so on. Wallpaper: Space
2. My laptop - which I'l use for music production had a music/horror theme. I called it "Igor". Wallpaper: A mainly black Frankenstein image.
3. This machine is dedicated to the fine arts. I've called it "guernica", and the partions are called "Cezanne (C
", "Dali (D: ), "Kolwitz (K: )", "Rothko(R: )"... Wallpaper "Two pieces of bread expressing a sentiment of love" by Dali (1940).
So far I haven't had any problems with the games I've installed: WoW, FEAR. DOOM 3, Tomb Raider Anniversary,Fallout 3 (I loved it when the game suggested Ultra High settings), Bards Tale 2. Installing LOTRO and Age of Conan now.
2 things I didn't like:
- They had installed Norton Internet Security
- They had set up one large C partition on Disk 0. Then I discovered: I can shrink (and enlarge) partition under Vista.
Keeping one partition for other OS'es such as Linux. Regarding Linux: Until now I've used Suse. But Ubunto seems to be very popular right now. Should I go for that in stead.
There is at least one lie in this post.
Yay!