> > AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice 2.2GHz > > with 1GB DDR 400, a 250gb SATA drive Hi. Go with x86 - slightly simpler and no discernable speed difference, (pity that :-) ). Although if you decide to go 64bit all you need to do in Ubuntu is install the ia32libs - there are perfect howto's on the community pages at Ubuntu. Dave