Well thanks guys for this. I wont be playing games because i find it hard playing them with the use of one hand plus i'm really not a gaming person. The motherboard i have now supports the AGP 8, radeon 9600 is an agp 8 graphics card :) With what you have all told me i will at least know what to look for and make sure i don't buy anything i can't use later. I'll look into the harddrive further as i hate backing up to CD, takes damn to long for my liking..

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