[Bungleau]

I will tell you, Kev, that today's memory is not necessarily compatible with yesterday's MBs. I have an older Pentium MB that supports DIMMs and SDRAMs. As I later found out, some stuff has changed internally so that today's 100Mhz or 66Mhz SDRAM is not compatible with yesterday's machines. So the kids' machine now has a meager 64MB of memory ('cause I can't get anything else compatible), while mine has a now-modest 512. Next machine will go up higher, for sure.

So a new MB will ensure compatibility with today's other components. An older MB doesn't make that promise, although if you're handy enough, you can swap the parts out easily enough. Just adds to the personal time and cost of the machine.

I'll probably be picking most of my parts up at a local computer store here. They tend to be very reasonable, especially if I see them at a local show.