i would go intell for now.


here is my system info.



http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/20/1945258&amp;mode=thread

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=171


Soyo P4I Fire Dragon Motherboard (Limited Edition):

Features:

Embedded Hipoint 372 IDE RAID chip, provide ATA 133 IDE RAID 0,1,0+1 

On board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet function by PHY controller 

Embedded CMI 8738 Audio chip to provide 6 channels audio solution 

Provide Smart Card Reader connector 

Advanced Management Capabilities
* Software power off control, Power-on by keyboard, Power-on by Alarm, Modem Ring On 

CPU FSB, core voltage &amp; multiplier could be adjusted via DIP setup
 
Supports ATX12V power supply only 

Supports on-board Hardware Monitoring and includes Hardware Health Utility to 

streamline your PC system management
 
Supports WOL (Wake On LAN) function to simplify network management 

DIMM voltage adjustable 

AGP Pro voltage adjustable 

Suspend To RAM, Suspend To Disk


and for drives i have INTERNIALLY 

1 floppy

a CD ROM drive

C D and F drives being hard drives 
2, 120 GB and 1 80 GB HD

EXTERNIAL is 

1, 80 GB 1, 200GB HDD

and one DVD ROM multi format combo RW drive all its missing is litescribe and duel layer.


video card is an XFX Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM