What's wrong with Vista?

[Aerozord]

I didn't see any motherboard that supports 8, atleast not one that supports AGP

[I_Like_Swordchucks]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I didn't see any motherboard that supports 8, atleast not one that supports AGP

I never said supports 8GB and supports AGP. I simply said supports 8GB, most of which support PCI-E x16. And guess what, most video cards are PCI-E x16!!! And PCI-Ex16 video cards are always CHEAPER than their AGP counterparts.

Newegg lists 189 different socket 775 Intel motherboards that support 8 GB and 69 socket AM2 that support 8 GB of RAM.

Newegg also lists only 2 out of 150 AMD based motherboards that aren't capable of using a video card and at least 2 GB of RAM, and only 8 out of 250 Intel based boards.

In other words, out of 400 motherboards on Newegg, only 10 of them are incapable of supporting the hardware needed to run Vista well. 10. 1/40. 2.5%.

Hardly the average motherboard, wouldn't you say?

If you want to argue that not everybody has the hardware needed for Vista, thats fine, but the average motherboard is not even remotely in danger of being fried. Dislike Vista all you want, but to say that your motherboard is in danger of being fried is not an issue with Vista. Not even close. In fact, you can't show me a single case where a motherboard was fried to the sole fault of Vista. If somebody put in a video card that fried the motherboard, its because their PSU is only a 300W generic brand and they needed a better one which would have been listed on the reqs for the video card to begin with. Get that? Its an issue with your RAM or your PSU or your CPU or whatever else, and if your system is so old that it can't support the RAM or CPU or video neccessary for Vista, XP probably doesn't run all that amazingly either.

You can bash Vista enough without making baseless claims and accusations with which you are totally misinformed about.