about time for planning a upgrade! im first getting a sata hdd driver, since my desktop wont use sata, it would be 10$, not much, 160GB! then i might add 4 to 6 GB of ram to it in the summer. i also got a dual core desktop, but XP needs a new kernal image to read dual cores, so next week, you guys can waste disk space away, jk, ill need it.