Well...after reading everyone's comments, I went ahead and splurged. I have purchased all the components to build a box. Here they are: BioStar M7VIG AMD XP 2200 2 Maxtor 5200 RPM 80 gig Hard drives Inno3D/Nvidia GF4 MX440 128 meg ram vid card 2 gig of SDRAM LG CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive Case w/400w power supply and f/r USB support floppy We'll see how it performs. Thanks to everyone for the help and responses.