Here's a follow-up to a previous thread that I made last week: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170528-considerding-going-back-to-windows-vista/ Since I won the retail copy of Windows Vista Ultimate on eBay for $74, I needed to look for a new custom built PC that still supports Windows Vista on modern hardware even though the OS is out of Mainstream Support. Tell me this. Will any of the configurations that I made work under Windows Vista? All of this stuff that I configured, but not finalised will cost more than $800. Here's a run down of what it could look like. 1. NZXT Guardian 921RB mid-size computer tower. 2. ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard supporting up to 32 GB DDR3 RAM. 3. Eight core 3.6 GHz AMD FX8150 processor w/16 MB cache. 4. Cooling: Ultra-performance coolin, copper heat-pip heatsink, high air-flow cooling fan, Artic Silver 5, a 120mm/92m case fan. 5. 8 GB DDR3-1600 RAM (single channel). 6. 2 x 1 TB SATA III hard drives. 7. PCI-e 6-pin compliant 600-watt Coolmax power suuply. 8. 24x DVD/RW optical driver. 9. NVIDIA GeForce GT610 graphics card w/1 GB GDDR3 video RAM. 10. Standard build option, burn-in, test & ship out. 11. One year manufacturer repair/replacement product warranty (expires in December 2014) 12. PCI IDE controller. 13. Internal all in one flash card reader. 14. Wireless PCI-e network card. Having all of this is going to cost me over $800 and will consume 200 more watts per quote from the Barebones computers section on Portatech: http://www.portatech.com/products/product.cshtml?id=70310&o=71327 Let me know what you think, because I am NOT planning to run Windows 2000 as the host OS in 2014 and I will no longer have access to the old computer also.