Hi all. I hope someone here can suggest good places to look for this information.

A new motherboard is required. The repair shop is proposing to put in an MSi HG1M-E33, which uses the intel i3-2100 3.1 GHz 3MB cache chip.

I haven't found this hardware on either the compatible or incompatibel lists. I have googled around trying to find out-- will this hardware work with Ubunto 11.10 (or 12.4)?

And if it works, do I need more graphics processing power to run the unity desktop? Compiz was too resource intense for my old motherboard/processors.

If you know the answer or know where to look for the answer, please let me know, because I would like to know that what I'm buying is going to work well. Thanks!

Killick