For $100 you're not going to get any of the things you mention unless you're buying them used.  You will not be able to see the improvement, if any, in the speed of your broadband connection.  I also am an excite@home survivor.  I replaced my former computer which had an 800 Mhz PIII, with a new 1.8 gig computer.  It does a lot of things faster, as it should, being 225% faster than my old dead one.  I can't see that in how fast my pages load or how fast I download. I found www.compuplus.com selling a P IV 1.8 gig for $235, but, of course, you'd have to get a P IV mobo, new memory, a bigger power supply, and a few other things.  Try doing a google search to see if you can overclock your 750 to a higher speed.  Use the $100 to buy the modem ATT rents you for $10 a month.  You'll be further ahead.


>
>I have 100 bucks burning a whole in my pocket which could either get me a
>faster CDRW drive than what I've already got or I could upgrade my 750mhz to
>a ghz Duron or socket A T-Bird.
>
>I burn about 1 to 2 CD's a week but I'd like to see my system running with
>more horsepower.  Would a broadband connection currently running a 750mhz
>Duron be greatly improved by a 1ghz Duron or 950mhz T-bird?
>
>I have 256mb pc133 RAM so that should suffice for my Win98se/xp dual boot
>system.  I am booting with a pair of  7200rpm, 80-pin SCSI hard drives with
>an ATA/66 eide drive only used for mass storage.
>
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