Help me to choose a new desktop pc

[tullo]

Hi,
I hope to be in-topic here, I neeed a new pc, my old AMD 900 Mhz (running Ubuntu 6.06) it's slow to manage large multimedia files and I want something more powerful and faster. I don't need nothing particular, with my pc I just surf internet, manage and edit audio files and photos and office. I would like to have a good 3D support to use XGL and the new possibilities offered by the next Gnome issue.
Ubuntu 6.06 will be th O.S, I will buy the pc without os an I install it.
I have composed an AMD based pc and I would like your opinion about the linux compatibility, the quality and the balance between the components:

Mother board: Abit KN8 ultra socket 939 nVidia nForce 4 Ultra
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ OEM Socket 939
Memory: 1GB DDR SDRAM Corsair PC3200 CAS 2 Platinum 400 Mhz
Video card: Asus EN&&==GT HTD 256mb Nvidia GeForce 6600GT PCI express
Hard Disk Hitachi 250 GB S-ATA2 300 7200 RPM cache 8 mb
DVD writer by LG

Thanks for your help.
Tullo

[Weedman]

Looks good.

I am unsure if the Nforce 4 chipset has great support in Linux. Hopefully someone will know.

That's a nice system you've got there. Especially the Video card, as it is a good chipset and PCI-E which allows for upgradability.

Apart from the chipset of the motherboard (which I am unsure about), it all looks fine to me.

Happy computing with that machine (if you decide to get it in that form).

weed

[AlexK]

nForce 4 has good linux support, SUSE 9.3 and 10.1 work fine on my brother's computer. Everything detected... (his mobo is ASUS A8N-E nForce 4 Ultra)

other than that, like weedman said, rest of specs look good and should work without any trouble in linux. Any particular reason why you are going for a S939 single core instead of a low end AM2 Single Core? (just for some minimal future proofing)

[Kojak]

I don't need nothing particular, with my pc I just surf internet, manage and edit audio files and photos and office.

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ OEM Socket 939

A bit of an overkill for your needs imho. No need to spend lots of bucks on fast processors if you don't really use/need all of their power for e.g. clustering but only surf the web and deal with a few media-files.

Just my opinion.