[garasaki]

Well, what it'll be is A O slow!!

Why buy an 1800+ then cripple it with SDRAM and a slow HD?? If you're gonna do something, do it right. He'll need a new PSU and case because he's no doubt got a Dell with some weird form factor, and his PSU certainly does not have enough juice for a modern motherboard. I didn't say anything about the OS, but he's gonna run into SO many driver issues unless he reformates his HD that he wont get that thing running right for weeks! And, the HD he has is most likely a small, 5400 rpm, ATA33 (66 at best) drive that's gonna cripple his system too.

His plan of simply switching out his mobo and PIII processor can work, but in the end, he's not gonna have a system thats not worth what he spent on the mobo and 1800+, and all the headaches he's gonna have are gonna turn him off to working on his own computer.