Horizontal span has been removed from the vista drivers. I'm not certain if they intend to bring them back or not. Well aware of the limitations of the 8500gt vs the 7900gt, it was mostly information for those who may be interested.

Vista is new and shiny, I like it from a user standpoint *IF* the machine is balls enough to use it. You do have to accept that you are throwing away a TON of processor, video and ram to the OS. If I didn't know that I'd be supporting Vista at work within 12 months I'd go back to XP, but the only way I'll learn it is through immersion...

The one thing that bothers me is how poorly WoW runs in general on my machine (it runs just fine, however with an x2 6000 with 2gb of ddr2 and an nvidia 7900gt I'd expect much better)... I get the exact same performance @ 1280x1024 as I do @ 800x600... Same for all graphics settings min/max... In shattrah I get around 20-30fps, I can even turn on FRAPS and get the same framerate...

CPU isn't capped, GPU obsiously isn't pegged (I can run two more copies on the same video card without a performance hit) so the only thing I can see is WoW it's self being the damn bottleneck...