I am thinking of upgrading my (old?) computer, and the cost/preformance ratio tells me that I should go for this MB. I will at the same time spring for a AthlonXP 3000+ with 400MHz FSB and DDR-ram to match. Now from what I read on www.viaarena.com they have quite good linux drivers including precompiled for SuSE 8.2, which happens to be the version of choice for me until I know I can upgrade without experiancing all the small troubles I see on this list. This mobo has it all and it worries me: ATA-raid, SATA, USB2.0, NIC, Sound. Has anyone tried a similar mobo, and if so could they tell me of their experiances. Sigh, I'll have to reinstall Windows when/if i buy it, well that's a lesser problem. A blessing acctually, it is growing full of small anoying and impossible to fix errors.(as any version of it does after a year)