It's a nice feeling when things work out!
I have my new system "half built". My old main computer died so I built a similar system to yours (Q6600, 8GIG RAM, 64Bit vista) - although I stuck my old HD etc in the new computer so I haven't actually installed Vista yet. I am debating on the SSD, since my current slave box hasn't given my much trouble or loading issues (once I switched to symlinking), but that's only in Outland (which is totally empty now). Will have to do some pricing on those and see.
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