Quite possibly. If you're lucky, your mobo will have a BIOS update available which will enable support for the 45nm processors. If not, then you'll need a new mobo to use one of the aforementioned 45nm CPUs.

i only my CPU and RAM failed.



lol
On Ebay they're all going for €170-180 ish.
Ofc vista is at some parts better and faster in gaming, but the difference isn't big enough (not at least in my eyes) to half the score on operative system just because you can't run fancy bling dx10 on vista :P
This version looks like its gonna crap all over the console versions.

but still going to try pc version