After build

After the build I installed Windows Vista Business 64-bit. That was simple enough. Then installed the EVGA video drivers, and the motherboard drivers. Then I installed my mouse and set up my speakers to work properly inside Windows. Loaded Firefox and Thunderbird fine, along with Trillian. I have even been able to play Company of Heroes on it and it looks great. I turned all of the settings up and it looks good. Now I'm just stripping down all of the extra Windows applications that I don't want and I should be ready. I doubt I will miss Windows Mail too much.
I also put in an old desktop wireless card as well as a 200GB hard drive (IDE) I was using as an external but decided to put it in the case for backups now. That all went pretty smoothly.
Vista 64-bit seems fine for now, everything I have has installed without any problems. The Aero interface looks pretty cool and I'm going to continue to play with these little graphical things that make my new OS look so pretty.
I still don't know much about overclocking and frame rates and stuff, but I'll get into that after I move (I still need to move back onto campus soon). My next post will probably be about that stuff.

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