Ok, since Vista is no game box what am I going to do? Supreme Commander is unplayable and SH4 is marginal on the XP box. Civilization 4 is a resource pig for some reason beyond my understanding.
I ordered the parts to make a game box and cannabilize the XP box. The parts should arrive tomorrow. The specs are below. The XP box has over 1 TB in hard drives. These will go to the Windows Home Server.
This leaves most of an extra computer; an AMD 3800 X2 with 3 gig mem.
AMD 6000 X2
36 Gig Raptor
1 Gig Mem
7300 nVidia card