I have the luxury to work around things too, but that's the sin of Vista: You shouldn't have to hand-pick components to get the PC working. If you must, it's not ready, plain and simple.

Further, and I mean no offense to this, Sledge, but you get really excited over new products very easily. You're a "New new new! Now now now!" type person, and generally don't carry any of the reservations expressed by a large portion of the general PC/gaming community about anything.