U r a gamer or like graphics work/multimedia?? buy this one and put water cooling...tis mobo is fast and it gets a little hot but with proper cooling and correct bios config its amazing... I build a pc with this mobo, AMD 4200+ dual core skt939 2.2 Mhz, 2 x corsair value 1 Gb each, PSU HYPER Type-R 600 Watts SLI ready, EVGA 8800GTS 640ram factory overclocked, Soundcard Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, THERMALTAKE Armor with watercooling incorporated and after put all with watercooling (MOBO voltage regulators + North and South Bridge + CPU, Graphics, Ram, HD) and overclock cpu to 2.8 manually on d BIOS and no high temperatures and system runing stable (stress test made on all components for 6 hours and no crash)...customer very happy and playing Call of Duty 4 at 1440x900 singleplayer with graphics only reaching 65 degrees celsius, cpu 45, and NForce 40...in multiplayer minus 10 to 15 degrees celsius on all... Hope all this info helps u get a nice system runing and u all understand what this mobo can do and why is been sold for high prices compared with AM2 ones...
A really good motherboard for the price, its sli compatible, hold up to four GB of ddr 400 memory(would be better if it was ddr2 just for the extra speed)compatible with many AMD processors so you have a good choice when it comes to buying one(socket939)it also has five sata ports and a external sata port so i would worry about not having enough hard drive space and good sized copper heatsink pipes to take away the heat from the processor and other chips on the motherboard. So overall this is a great product for anyone wanting a midrange/high end computer or sli graphics cards, the price is also not to high at around 96GBP (new)