Rob, was not putting down that motherboard in anyway. I was just advocating plenty of research before purchase.

Currently the only downside I see of the motherboard is the two SDR slots limiting visuvius to using only two of his current memory sticks - persumable he has 3*128 - limiting him to 256megs, which is still plenty!

It has been too long a time since I got to spec. & build a PC, it is fun. And hence I am out of date on what chipstes rule the chicken coup.
PS What is your opinion of the Shuttle shoebox sized PCs?