[SWLUG] New build

[Marcus Davage]

A bit of advice, ladies and gentlemen, if you please.

My home machine is creaking (self-build, c. 2001, AMD 850MHz, 120GB+30GB
HD, 1GB DDR, Rage 128 gfx), and I'm looking at a few nice machines built
by Palicomp, on eBay, e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-QUAD-PHENOMII-955-12-8Ghz-8GB-1000GB-8200-1GB-CVO_W0QQitemZ120489050225QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item1c0db50071
or
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-PhenomII-955-12-8Ghz-4GB-500GB-9600GT-2GB-WIZ_W0QQitemZ140357448034QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item20adf4b162
or
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-PhenomII-955-12-8Ghz-8GB-1000GB-GTS250-1GB-WIZ_W0QQitemZ140357445022QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item20adf4a59e.

Basically, I want a Quad-core 64bit 12GHz, 8GB DDR3, 1TB SATA, but as I
don't play games, I'm not bothered too much about the gfx card. It also
has to be < £500. What I *will* be doing is running Ubuntu 9.10 (with
Windows XP for iTunes, under VirtualBox), and maybe some CPU-intensive
server apps.

Does anyone have any recommendations, re. gfx cards and their support in
Linux?

Cheers,

Marcus