Personally, I'm a firm believer in CPU upgrades. My first computer was a 16mhz.(that's NOT a typo) zenith. and I've been upgrading ever since. So you can see...I've been doing this stuff for a long, long time ;-) Some people are hung up on RAM and video cards. But in my experience. I've never seen anywhere near as much performance gains as upgrading a few hundred mhz. My 1Ghz. system with 128 meg. Ram zips along fairly nicely. ScottA