Hi Lance, Your quandary seems to have 2 points, upgrading the Gateway, and power-user graphics. Your cheap solution is a 233mhz pentium MMX cpu and matching PCI motherboard. I am guessing you would really like AGP graphics, however. The most likely motherboard candidates for supporting AGP cards tend to also need ATX power supply cases and a Pentium II cpu. Your case probably would not accept an ATX style motherboard. I would look for a bare-bones Pentium II and move the hard disk, sound, modem, CDROM, etc out of the Gateway into the new case. You can sell the Gateway as a bare-bones to someone else or put a cheap hard disk in it and sell it to someone "just getting started" in computers and internet, etc. Assuming your Gateway motherboard is a 166mhz max or even slower, it won't support the last generation Classic Pentiums. That also means the board is worth more in a case than as a separate part when trying to sell it, since experienced builders will be less interested in it. As for graphics cards, any Nvidia RIVA chip based card is fine, and I hear manufacturers using the 3dfx Voodoo and Voodoo2 chips are hot. Some of the Disney Studio-grade cards get extremely pricey. ---------- From: Lance Cummings[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 8:35 AM Lance has a P5-120 from Gateway, circa mid-1995. He's pumped the RAM up to 48 megs, and he's added a BusLogic 958, a Seagate Barracuda, and an Archive PYTHON DAT drive. But Lance has discovered computer graphics. I mean he's *really* discovered them -- big time. Now, realizes he needs raw processing speed, and a motherboard that can cache more than the measly 64 megs his Aladdin can handle. :( PCBUILD: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask]