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Yeah, that's what I've been finding out in my search. Initially, I wanted to keep the 9600AiW because it's decent. However, as you said, I don't see too many good AGP mobos out there. Most likely I'll do the trade-up with ATI and get a AiW X800 XL 256Mb pci-express for $279 (a little...

Thanks for the input/comments - it's definitely a big help.

Between the mobo and cpu I was hoping to spend no more than about $400 I guess my big question (and it may be a split) intel vs. AMD is there a solid winner? I keep hearing more and more good things about AMD and more negatives about intel's chips.

Intel Celeron 2.0 (not Pentium like I first wrote) 2GB DDR266 ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 (128Mb) Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Maxtor 250GB SATA Maxtor 300GB SATA SeaGate 80GB ATA133 iWill P4ES motherboard (533MHz FSB Intel 845E chipset) I know my motherboard sucks - it has a 2GB max for RAM...

About 5 years ago I was fed up with purchasing complete systems so I built my own piece-by-piece. I've upgraded components over the years (hard drives, sound card, video card) but now I want to buy a new motherboard and CPU. Right now I have an Intel Pentium but have heard much good about...