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[Snowrider2]

Folks, I'm taking the plunge! I go on sabbatical (8 weeks paid vacation compliments of Intel) in 3 weeks and I've decided to build my own system. I have a lot of work to do to complete my bill of materials, but here is what I have so far:

Core 2 E6600
Intel 975XBX Mobo
NVIDIA 7900 GT GPU
Patriot Extreme - DDR2 667 Memory 2GB
Windows XP Home

So why am I building my own system? Well, I couldn't resist the Intel employee discount on the CPU and Windows XP Home. I've struggled with the decision whether or not to go with the XP Home or Professional because I'm anticipating that I will switch to Vista when it comes out. Is there any advantage to having the professional version when building a system? Perhaps better driver support or something?

Snow