This Board has been around some several months now but all in all if your looking to upgrade your P4 or athlon and are interested in getting something with rock solid stability then look no further. If your one for overclocking and pushing things to the limit this board isnt for you. However it does over clock decently on stock cooling and it has alot of expansion room for the future. On top of that no one can remotely hack your bios because of a clever but cumbersome bios setup but it does get the job done. It Has 3 pci-e slot so u can use two graphics cards and a physics card or whatever else they may come out with in the future. This is one of the most stable boards on the market and drivers are always readily available at intel's page. So if your using this for raid array's no matter what the flavor slight gaming desktop publishing or editing this is deffinetly a great board to pick up. Some of the settings may leave newbies in a state of awe but trial and error just leave the case open because you may need to reset the bios. Oh yea it also comes with a front panel audio/usb 2.0 and firewire which occupy a floppy slot to give you even more expandability.