I've been a tek for a while, I recommend to my customers to go with AMD all the time, I would use no other, In my opinion and experience the are the superior chip. My rig is a MSI mobo, 1 gig DDR 400, 1 x 80GB Maxtor SATA, 1 x 80GB Maxtor ATA & 256MB PCI Express Radeon X550 Video Card, AMD 64 Sempron 1.81GHz CPU..but I also increase my paging file on both hard drives to sqeeeeeeza a bit extra virtual ram ;) but to be honest MSI mobo & AMD chip is what I would go for if I were in your predicament ;) Hope this helps White Rabbit