Thanks guys, lots of good points.
My reasons to upgrade are many: Both computers are often being used at the same time and daily one of the kids wants to use one while my wife and I are on. The Win 98 machine gets a couple of hours of use a day. It’s slow, locks up, sound stops working until reboot, lots of things won’t run on 98… It’s pretty darn old for a daily PC and needs to be downgraded to the kids. The “New” machine is an Athelon 1400 on an ECS K7AMA motherboard; it’s over 5 years old and was dogging when I stopped playing AH about a year ago. I’d like something that could play AH and modern games and software.