Have you tried www. pricewatch.com? You get a very good idea of your options when you look at all the mobos, cpus, etc. for sale. You can do a lot with $600, so it is difficult to make suggestions. I like just poking around to see what stuff is available and for what price. What cpu did you want? Regarding the videocard, I think you should the AGP card for no other reason than it is a better video card vs PCI. I guess if you don't play games, it doesn't matter. At 05:01 PM 06/21/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hey everybody- >I need to upgrade my computer before I go off to college and I need some >help. I only want to spend around $600 and need to upgrade my motherboard, >processor, RAM, case, and sound card. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html