I don't care about LAN - this is offline win98se gaming machine I care about chipset, ide, and SATA disk. Just have to read what optimised video graphics card should I buy - 6600GT or 6800GT ? or X800XT from ATI ? And one question about sound card. 15 years ago I had severals Sound Blaster cards. Is there a sense to have audigy with hardware EAX in win98se ? Did games have a EAX implementation in those times (under 98se) ?