If i where you, i'd add a different fan to that videocard if you plan on playing Crysis, because it'll run pretty hot, i've had one customer who fried his vidcard because he had the stock fan, which could not properly cool the card.
Other than that, it looks like a pretty nice, up to spec system :drink:
As for why people don't like Vista, there's a myriad of reasons why, some don't like the new layout of the GUI, some hate the fact they need a super powerful pc to run the equivalent of XP Pro with all the bells and whistles, some don't like the amount of bloatware that comes with it, the UAC is often a feature my customers give for wanting me to remove Vista and install XP instead, and there have been, and still are a lot of concerns about privacy, control over the system (DRM, anyone?), and Vista phoning home for dubious reasons.
And of course, the ridiculous price of this bad re-imagening of Windows XP (because it's not been built from the ground up as microsoft claims, it has bugs that where inherent in XP and NT that could not have come from original code work), is one reason most folks i build systems for opt for XP.
Can't say i blame them :lol: