Apparently my 8300 didn't like RC1 or RC2 (or vice versa).

Just got a chance to install the RTM version of Vista Ultimate on the
machine and it's running like a champ.

No performance issues using the full GUI and toys, no driver installs, and
even a fresh download of the newest AVG 7.5 installed w/o issue.

System is a 3.0GHz Northwood/1GHz PC3200 DDR/128mb AGP Radeon 9700 Pro.

The OS appears to have about an 8gb footprint on the hard drive.

There is no comparison in the performance versus the 3 other versions of
Vista I toyed with.


-Stew