I was thinking of upgrading my motherboard and processor. But I decided I'm going to wait it out 4 years because I'm still a full time university student for 4 more years. Then I'm going to buy a whole new computer altogether. One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade my motherboard was I wanted a PCI-E slot so I can buy the video cards for cheaper prices. Right now, games rarely even take advantage of all the bandwith AGP has, are future generation games really going to benefit from PCI-E? And I read that PCI-E delivers 75W to the graphics so high-end video cards don't need to be plugged in to the psu? Thanks. Intel Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz 1.0 Gb of RAM, WinXP pro SP2 Gigabyte mobo, 350 W PSU 40 Gb HDD Radeon 9600 256mb AGP8x Sound Blaster Live 5.1 HP CD R/RW LG DVD burner

Yes just like games took advantage of AGP when it came out. PCI-E is the next big thing in graphics for pc's and it's only a matter of time when you won't see new motherboards support AGP. Intel's new chipsets pretty muched fased out AGP from their lineup and so with all AMD boards soon enough.

you will still have to plug most high-end PCI-E cards into the PSU but it uses a 6-pin power connector instead of molex. Build-in-Progress: NZXT Nemesis Elite Athlon 64 3200 Abit An8 OCZ EL PE Rev2 DDR400 X800PRO

And to add to gamerman4's comment...that means you'll not only have to upgrade the board, CPU, & video card, but you'll have to get a new PSU as well ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1