so that pre built one will work with the ram i have & i would have to supply my own video card.
The ram u bought is ok, YES
ok, "IF" you bought the 2 sticks (pc3200) 1 gig each of ram, thats all you can put in this mobo. You will have 512 extra gigs of ram if you purchase this thing. The mobo only has 2 slots for the ram with a maximum 2 gigs allowed.
The front end bus on this mobo is pretty decent though newer models get much higher. If your not a overclock freak it would be plenty fine mobo. It has a PCI-E slot and an AGP pci for an updated video card, from my reading there is NO installed video chip on this motherboard, u will need a gaphics card.
I think it's still an awesome buy for that cpu and hardware & decent case, psu is a maybe?, the optical drive speeds are little slow but oh-well. See what others think after me.........
happy shopping~ :-/