After installing Vista, be sure to disable some of the more obtrusive features. I believe one of them is the window manager that copies the screen contents to a thumbnail it display when you mouse over the program in the Taskbar. This feature destroys frame rate and is pointless in my opinion. Other features can be turned off based on your usage. I personally disable drive indexing, as I don't care how long my searches take; I just don't want it indexing when I'm gaming.

The ram is a good upgrade, you won't regret having 8GB.

Here is the SSD I am using, but to be honest, I haven't really benchmarked to see how much of a gain, if any, I'm getting from it. I plan to do some testing this weekend as I'm curious where I can improve some performance. I'll update if I find any good info.

- Souca -