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I will never buy a stick of no-name RAM. The only RAM I will even bother with is Kingston, Crucial, or SimpleTech. I've had good luck with all 3 brands and that is what I intend on continuing to use with a preference towards Kingston for the most part.
As far as motherboards if you're going to get a new one that is for an Intel chip I'd recommend looking into Dual Hyper-Threading technology. Basically, you take 2 sticks of 256 megs of RAM (or 512, but 256 for example) plug one stick in each bank and you have a full speed 800 megahertz FSB. I'd recommend checking into the option of having SATA drives even though they still aren't all that popular they may very well take over. If you don't need a sound-card and NIC that is something to think about although while I hate motherboards that have a lot of add-on stuff I don't mind the on-board LAN. That just saves me a PCI slot in the future but I still prefer to have a regular sound card and video card. If it breaks it's just a matter of swapping the card and not the whole motherboard. But then this is my method of trying to keep things simple on myself.
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