teenTech, don't worry about what Sloth says, the Abit's are indeed great boards, and recent polls show the Abit boards are what most Anandtech members are using in there systems. If someone has a pile of boards with bad caps near the cpu, then they are foolish for taken something back as defective, when the customer damaged the board. Damaging the caps is not an Abit failure, but most likely the result of using non-approved HSF's on the board. Follow the instructions, and the Abit's are as good as any. That's why Anandtech reviews always rate the Abit's as one of the best (if not the best) board you can get. But you already new that, as you said the KG7-Raid is an awesome board..