Gigabyte with Gigs

Customer with A8V-VM board asked me to upgrade mobo: I've basically taken
his PC apart and rebuilt with Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H mobo and 4x1GB Crucial
DDR2 800MHz RAM sticks, AMD 64x2 4800+ 2.5GHz CPU. I've got as far as
powering up and testing POST = OK. I'm not too sure about the following
scenario though: The board has ATI Radeon onboard graphics but I'm hoping to
run the PCIe nVidia t/c graphics card from his A8V-VM . - Is this wise or
does anyone forsee problems in doing so? Would I be better off just sticking
to the onboard graphics for now?

Secondly I chose this board for him on a bit of female intuition having read
a few reviews and checking out the spec of several easily-available
not-so-pricey motherboards: (I've never used this particular board before to
date.) IMO it's quite a respectable board for the price. Initially I'm
installing 32-bit XP on it for him (I am aware that XP won't see all of the
installed RAM.); with a view to a possible future os upgrade to Vista or
Windows 7; hence the large amount of RAM. Would anyone like to share
opinions? I'd appreciate it, and any comments may be helpful.

This is a rather early stage for me to say any more: I have to get into the
BIOS and everything now... All I've done so far is build it and it seems to
work OK. If anyone has any useful comments I'd appreciate your sharing them
with me. Thanks.

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