I have to agree Vista is not as good as XP from my experience. Personally though I would still get it, and not the OEM version, b/c the oem version has hard limits on how much you can change parts of the computer before it is considered a new computer. Eventually msft will stop supporting XP, and I ...

I have a silent pc and I was wondering what virus software can I use that does not use the hard drive when the computer is in idle? I have turned off all services that use the hard drive in idle and that is pretty much the only part of my system with noise I can hear personally (beside dvd drive) th...

BBC7 (and the loud roar of my non-silent pc )

I had a feeling it was still the same. oh well, at least i can customize it while I am at it. $1400 is quite an achievement, even moreso if you included Vista, did you post the configuration somewhere?

Hello, it's been about a year since I built a PC, and up until now my focus was purely performance. Well I am interested in a silent PC, but am feeling lazy. My question is if I build a system, would I save a lot of money over buying a comparable system from puget? I remember the small companies who...