Hey all,

So my Laptop looks to be heading towards the ends of its days, and I think its time to invest in a rig that will last me a while. I have plotted out some specs that I think may suit me, and would appreciate a quick check from those in the know about component compatibility, whether power supply and cooling is enough, and any other thoughts you may have.

http://jpshortstuff.247fixes.com/specs.PNG

Average use would be not too intensive, but I'm a programmer so there will be times that I may need to stretch things a bit. The odd game may well be played on there from time to time, and would be good to make this computer last a good while.

On a similiar note, I am considering tri-booting XP, Vista and Linux on the single harddrive. I've dual booted XP and Linux without problems, are there any extra considerations for tri-booting, or with Vista? I would install them in the order above, and use Grub to (hopefully) sort things out at the end. I haven't looked into this in great detail yet as I am still pondering the idea, but I've read that you should use Vista's Disk Manager to shrink its size before installing other OSs. Is this necessary or is it sufficient to sort out all the partition sizes with Grub?

Cheers,

-jp