would go with 2 gigs of ram over 1 gig .

just quickly reading over the motherboard reviews it says that the sound is lacking. might want to see if you can pick up a pci sound card for a good price.

also i would go throw in a little more dough for performance ram , you can over clock that board/cpu combo and faster ram will give you more stability.

*** Might also want to wait on the CPU there was a north Amercia price drop on dual-cores as of july 22nd so give a week or so for the new prices to come into effect ***