I have this board up & running. Tom's hardware has rated this "well deserved winner" of 11 other KT266a boards...
True it does not win many of the overall benchmarks but it's right up there with the big boys and has lots of nice features
and for less $$. Very stable and runs like lightning. (I know Tom is not respected by some in this forum but he is right on this one)
Tom's Dragon + review
The key to getting this stable is going with the BA1 BIOS upgrade and setting optimized defaults. The on board LAN is great & nice n' fast
with my cable modem and the sound is as good or better then an SBLive 5.1 IMHO. So before you look at the big boys Asus/Abit look at this one to.
System:
Athlon 1800+
Soyo Dragon Plus
Inwin Q-500 Tower Case
Thermoright SK-6, Sunon 38cfm fan
Elsa Gladic Ultra 64meg
512 meg Crucial RAM (2 x 256)
Viewsonic PF795 19"
2 - 30 gig hard Maxtor drives
48x Creative CDROM
24x 10x 40x Plextor CDRW
Enermax EG365P-VE PS 431w
No additional cards installed.