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I figured this would be the best place to post this.

So someone donated their computer to me because I needed onez for college and it seems like a pretty good computer. But I have a few questions about it.

1. How good of a machine is it? Specs are below:

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
8GB of ram
Graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 1800

2. It has Vista (ewww!) on it and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place where I can find a really cheap upgrade for preferable Windows 8.

3. I have the computer hooked up to my 23" Asus 1080p capable monitor via a DivX adapter that has a female HDMI on the other side and I have my HDMI cord hooked up from that to the monitor. Now my problem is I can't put it on 1080p resolution because if I do the screen looks like its shaking. It works fine on 1680 x 1050 resolution though so I'm not sure how to fix this. Nevermind, got it fixed.

Thanks!