Video cards are now 32mb standard and 64mb for video and sound. While I have said this before, 500mhz to 750mhz is great for business use. Anything above that is for graphic or high demand games. Yes, your computer will perform functions faster, and if you have the money, time is money. In reality, the easiest and cheapest up-grade is ram performance.
More ram is more important than higher speed.
The new hard drives are fantastic, but the SCSI adapters are still expensive, and even with all the new swapping programs on hard drives, this is not as easy as promised in the advertising. Remember, a computer is as fast as its slowest component. We also still send out our reports in text format. However, AOL 6.0 does, as reader Kelly Small has pointed out to us. And yes, the AOL up-grade is free.