For my main computer I use currently corsair dominator gt's. Sometimes crucial ballistix's. For computers #2 and #3 , I use the old set from my main computers if I can, so..corsair/crucial. For computers #4 to #13, I use GSkill ram.

I like GSkill. There is always a deal going on for GSkill ram. It is always cheap, even for their low latency high speed stuff. I have never had a problem with their ram and I am running 20 sticks of it. Corsair or Crucial are very reliable companies. I usually get whichever has the best deal for what I want at that time. Corsair does usually have better looking heatcovers though.

Video cards, NV has GTS250's which are the new 9800GTX, can get thouse for under $150 for the 1gb version and much less for the 512.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...on=gts+250+1gb

GTX 280's can be found for well under $300 now if you look around

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143145

and they are just about as good as GTX 285's . Actually found one before for $229 after a $30 mail-in rebate.

4890's are almost as good as GTX 285's and certainly better then anything else other then the GTX285 (or the dual GPU/card cards). They sell at @$250, but seen em as low as $209.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scription=4890


I am running WIndows 7 RC1 x64. No problems with EQ2, no idea on WoW, but I doubt there will be much problems if any. An RC is a release candidate and probably in 3 months it will go to RTM status or RC2. Vista went to RC2 before RTM, but WIndows 7 is doing so well, it may just go straight to RTM (release to manufacturing). I think, if you are going to have to pay money to get a Vista OS, than you should diffinently go WIndows 7 instead, because Windows 7 is diffinently better then Vista will ever be and regaurdless of what potential problems you may encounter durring the RC period it will probably be worth putting up with if saving @$100 means anything to you....since windos 7 RC is free for a year. You buy Vista and eventually migrate over to WIndows 7, because it really is so much better, then you lose whatever $$ you spent on vista. You use WIndows 7 RC for free and find out it has too many problems to deal with (doubtfull), so you then get a vista OS and pay what you were gonna pay anyway. You use Windows 7 RC and liek it and eventually get the retail version. Honestly, I think for anybody, their best course is to use windows 7 rc at this time.