hey again. well hopefully i won't have to get anything new (other than maybe a power supply), but in case i am going to be in the market for a new mobo, cpu, and ram in the very near future, what is the best medium-priced hardware out there right now? i know that this deals a lot with personal preferences, but gimme your most fair view. :P i've heard that biostar, MSI and asrock are all crap. i've always heard great things about asus, but never had the money for any of their things. do they have any good stuff for more moderate prices? like maybe a motherboard for somewhere between and 0? i don't care what socket it is, but it would have to have at least one PCI slot (not PCI express). don't tell me PCI is completely gone now - please! :( the cpu i have right now is an old dell p3 850mhz, so pretty much *anything* is gonna be a step up there! lol! are semprons crap? i was thinking about an athlon 2800. what's the speed on those? 1800+? that's more than double my current speed. lol. what's a decent brand of ram? i would just want DDR - not DDR 2 or anything. well, any input is much appreciated! thanks, guys! :bouncy