[rpoz-29]

Our old Gateway is almost 6 years old. It's been updated a couple of times, but has gotten pretty slow, and "locks up" frequently. I'd like to spend as little as I have to. It isn't used by my son's for school any more, and therefore isn't used to download music, or other memory eating stuff. We use our computer for selling or buying on ebay, poking around on the internet, basic communications, etc. Should I buy a "package deal", or keep my monitor, keyboard and replace only the modem?

[RedHardSupra]

'bulid your own' through like mwave.com they usually got decent prices and more importantly, good selection of hardware. next month a shitload of 64bit dual core cpus are coming out, so the prices are gonna drop hard soon, so i'd suggest waiting for that.
i'd seriously get everything new. 6 yrs is quite a few generations, and you should be able to enjoy all the new technology. even small stuff like mice gotten nicer. monitors have made leaps and bounds improvments, graphics cards went from bitshovling to terminator quality effects in real time, and so on.

if you need any help picking this stuff, gimme a buzz, i love buying computers (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)