Ed, You've convinced me to upgrade my system by buying a new motherboard, processor chip, memory, and pci graphics card. Would you mind giving me your thoughts regarding which chip to buy?

mhz for mhz, the Cyris 233 seems to be the best buy, but I'm not sure how it rates compared to the AMD. Here are the prices:

AMD
K6 200 $80
K6 233 $95
K6 266 $110
K6 300 $135

Cyris MR
PR 233 $82
PR 266 $105
PR 300 $135

Intel
233 MMX $175
200 Standard $145
Pentium II 266 $265

Also, are there any problems with the $100 motherboards? Any chip set to stay away from or buy?

Thanks for your help.