ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard

Pros: fast and stable and cheap,
Cons: difuculties on installing via 4 in 1 drivers

Had no problems for installing the mobo but installing the via 4 in 1 drivers under windows 98SE was a complete disaster, the system kept asking for the correct drivers although they should have been on de installation CD, under XP no problem whatsoever(dual boot system), After downloading the latest drivers from the via 4 in 1 all went fine.
Only thing is the via chipset is a problem with soundblaster live card, the volume suddenly increases and gets lower again, after contacting Creative over and over they couldn't give a right solution for that problem, just bought an audigy card now will see if that salves my problems.

Pros: Speed and Reliability
Cons: Minimal documentation

After rebuilding a system put together buy a "fly by night" system builder, I have no complaints with this motherboard! It is quick, accepts either socket-a Athlons or Athlon XPs, has no networking problems (once you install the driver), and has reasonable support from Asus.

It should be noted that I had intermittent problems with networking until I installed the latest Via driver from "http://www.windowsupdate.com".

Overall, an excellent performer but could use some additional documentation.