Vista or Xp for my new build.

i am almost done finsihing my new rig . the specs for my new rig are antec 900 case, q6600 cpu,8800gt, 2gig ram 6400,

xfx680i mobo, zalman 9500,and 500gb of harddrive. my new rig is for gaming and also for normal surfin the net, and applications. the only trouble i have deciding is weather i should go for vista and get directx10 for xp. i cant decide beacuse i heard many people say that vista has too many problems and cant run old games . plz tell me your opnion of wat i shoud go for. thx.

alright thx guys . one more question is direct x10 really all taht good like how much diffrence is there between 9 and 10. thx again

Doesn't matter. If it was me I'd go with Vista unless i had a copy of XP i could use.

Vista isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be, unless your anal about 5fps less in some games, 2k off your 3dmark06 score and have a favorite game you know that won't work with it (I'm still pissed my MS-Dos games don't work with XP).

Plus, there is always the duel boot option.

Going into Vista i only partitioned half my hard drive (thanks a lot all you naysayers) in case I didn't like Vista and wanted to pick up a copy of XP and duel boot them. I guess i can always use it for Linuxs (then again i don't know what i'd use Linuxs for).

You can hack it, and get DX10 if you like. There isnt much of a difference in the visuals. Also if you get Vista, the visuals will eat your hardware, so if you do get it, right click on desktop and turn down the visuals. Also Vista slows down games, you can see here as proof in your favorite game

http://www.gamespot.com/hardware.html?type=hardware&category=Performance%20Guide&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&tag=topslot;title;3&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot

I know that if you don't want to hack DX, you can hack games separately. i.e. Crysis: you can hack its DX9 settings and set it to DX10.

Cheers,