Is it worth it to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista with new hardware?

[rasmasyean]

Hi,

I bought these:

ASUS P8P67 mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131705

Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115071

8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795

nVidia GTX 460 SE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130591


The mobo manual "recommends" that you should use the latest supported OS to "maximize" your features. So this made me wonder a bit because my Vista "Windows Experience Index" is 5.9, which I don't think it was too much lower before with 3.5 year old hardware. Does Vista bottleneck performance with new hardware? Should I upgrade to Windows 7 or else I would suffer some sort of performance hit? I'm not using any SDD's or multitouch screens or anything like that.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

What PSU did you buy?

 

[rasmasyean]

I actually saved my old PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703005

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Sweet BUILD!