Up the memory and you'll be fine -- you'd be surprised how much performance i squeezed out of a P2-350 by popping 256MB in (up from the 64 originally there) and that was running XP Pro and a crapload more software In your case the proc is fine, the speed of the ram isnt an issue .. its more the quantity (or lack thereof) that is the deciding factortrying to run win xp home + sp2 and the latest office on a duron 950, 128mb pc133 ram is slightly hard