well i can't say much about the monitors, wish i knew what you were talking about when you said spyder, but about the video card, well if you do any video editing then its time to switch to ati, anything x1000 and up come with a new ability for video conversion to be done by the video card and it's processor as opposed to your pc's processor, this allows for dramatic increases in speed! Not to mention ati isnt soo bad when it comes to gaming.