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Strengths: Stability, on-board features, expandability
Weaknesses: on-board features, O/C glitches, SATA incompatibility
Summary: This has got to be one of the most stable mobo's I've ever installed or used. I had a couple problem - installing a SATA drive as my C: drive. IT just wouldn't let me. So, after sacrificing a little HDD speed and settling for an IDE boot drive, I loaded the OS, and a few audio recording programs, and I haven't looked back. I'm using a P4 3.4 Ghz HT processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory (a slightly expensive inconvenience, but it benchmarks nicely), and 2 internal HDDs, one tray drive and a Maxtor One-Touch external drive (about 0.7 TB total). I use this computer exclusively for multi-track audio recording and need it to be fast. It is. Unfortunately, I can't make use of the bells and whistles, like onboard audio, USB, firewire, video, etc. The onboard extras use too much of the system resources. As long as you buy all outboard, PCI plug-ins for this baby, you should be OK. It just seems like such a waste though. My only REAL complaint is the built-in overclocking program, AI Booster. It is NOT stable, nor is it intuitive, as described. Also, after upgrading memory, the AI Booster became disabled and requires a BIOS flash to re-enable. This is supposed to be a major sales feature of the board. It's more of a major pain in the butt.
Overall, B+.
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