Just a quick word on mobos and named brands: You'd be hard pressed to find a company that constantly delivers hit mobo after hit mobo than ASUS, or Abit, etc. The big names with really high quality are usually: ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte, MSI, and DFI has been kicking butt recently from being more of a bargain board vendor of their older years. As for ASUS's socket 754 stuff, I've seen reviews claiming it's the only socket 754 (or first) to be able to run all 3 memory sockets at ddr400 speeds.