I'm buying from a shop so i dont actually know what motherboard it has and i know nothing about them anyway lol
as for the RAM i'm planning on selling the 256 that comes with it and buying 2x 512MB to slap in (then maybe another 2 if i have enough money) can you buy 1GB sticks of RAM?
once i have my new pc i might upgrade my current pc which sucks right now lol it's a Cyrix 266MHz with 128MB SDRAM

I'll try to make it a Dual P4 with 1Gb of RAM and put it in a network with my new PC but that might be being too optimistic.