Aright, thanks a ton to everyone who posted, I just ordered all the parts, and now I need to think about an OS. I'm a little confused as to what kind of CD I have, my father is a professor, and was able to bring home a MS Office XP Cd a few years ago. I remember being able to successfully install XP on my old PC a year or two ago, despite the CD saying that it "expires/expired" in 2003.
Will these disks successfully install XP on my new PC? If not, I was considering purchasing the Premium Vista home edition, until I saw the hundreds of furious comments left on every review site I read. With the computer build I have, will Vista really be crawling? Or were these people simply overreacting? I'd love to run DirectX 10, and thats basically one of the only reasons I'd consider making the switch to Vista, but if these MS Office XP Disks will work, I'd be perfectly happy staying with them.
Will these disks successfully install XP on my new PC? If not, I was considering purchasing the Premium Vista home edition, until I saw the hundreds of furious comments left on every review site I read. With the computer build I have, will Vista really be crawling? Or were these people simply overreacting? I'd love to run DirectX 10, and thats basically one of the only reasons I'd consider making the switch to Vista, but if these MS Office XP Disks will work, I'd be perfectly happy staying with them.