Any reason to not buy new motherboard now?

Hi all!

I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and do
it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the mb
drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the motherboards
will have Vista drivers included.

I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of a
motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".

Thanks in advance!

All the current motherboards run Vista fine. "Vista ready" generally
applies to an entire system, not a motherboard. It means that the box meets
the minimum requirements to run Vista Home Basic.

"PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2AD2E562-63B3-4966-9321-0DEF0BCBC001@microsoft.com...
> Hi all!
>
> I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and do
> it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the
> mb
> drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the
> motherboards
> will have Vista drivers included.
>
> I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of
> a
> motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".
>
> Thanks in advance!

Even the not-so-current motherboards work with Vista.

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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> All the current motherboards run Vista fine. "Vista ready" generally
> applies to an entire system, not a motherboard. It means that the box
> meets the minimum requirements to run Vista Home Basic.
>
> "PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2AD2E562-63B3-4966-9321-0DEF0BCBC001@microsoft.com...
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and
>> do
>> it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the
>> mb
>> drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the
>> motherboards
>> will have Vista drivers included.
>>
>> I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of
>> a
>> motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:47:00 -0800, PNutts <pnutterfield@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and do
>it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the mb
>drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the motherboards
>will have Vista drivers included.
>
>I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of a
>motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".
>
>Thanks in advance!
IMHO If you want all of Vists's bells and whistles to run flawlessly,
Wait.
I don't believe for a minute that there will be FULL Capability
drivers for *all* the (year or less) older hardware..

Thank you for the response (and for the others, too).

I'm going to do a little more digging. According to their website, ASUS has
a P5GZ-MX motherboard that has both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Vista Premium
certifications, and a bunch of others that are Windows Vista Ready (see link
below).

I'm confident that the Vista Ready motherboards (and many, many others) will
run with no issues, but I'm wondering if the Certified motherboards provide
additional functionality above and beyond the Ready ones. I'll follow up with
ASUS (good luck to me) and see if they can provide more details...

http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=4864

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> All the current motherboards run Vista fine. "Vista ready" generally
> applies to an entire system, not a motherboard. It means that the box meets
> the minimum requirements to run Vista Home Basic.
>
> "PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2AD2E562-63B3-4966-9321-0DEF0BCBC001@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and do
> > it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the
> > mb
> > drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the
> > motherboards
> > will have Vista drivers included.
> >
> > I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of
> > a
> > motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>

If you want to be sure to get full support from the start, check who has
drivers already posted and stick with the big well known manufacturers.
IMHO, I would stick with an Intel mobo with the 975X chipset. This probably
has in-box drivers for the RAID, sound, and other such problem causers. If
they aren't in-box, I bet they are already downloadable.

"PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2AD2E562-63B3-4966-9321-0DEF0BCBC001@microsoft.com...
> Hi all!
>
> I want to upgrade my system and is there any reason to not go ahead and do
> it now, other than after Vista is released there may not be a lag in the
> mb
> drivers release? For example, I assume, say, in March 2007 the
> motherboards
> will have Vista drivers included.
>
> I'm curious if there is any fundamental difference in the architecture of
> a
> motherboard designed "for vista" instead of being "vista ready".
>
> Thanks in advance!