[CyberCowboy777]

Abit is a good Manuf.

I love MSI myself...

Quality parts are the key to tech happiness

[Bush2000]

Maybe that's the problem. Many Linux folks seem to err on the side of cheapness...

[chilepepper]

Quality really is important. I recall some of the really lower end motherboards were put together with some cheap capacitors (mylar most likely). They worked fine for the first year or two. Then the caps would outgas and start failing in really subtle ways. All the good boards have high quality caps, usually tantalum.

I've been running my homebuilt ABIT BP6 with dual matched Celeron 366 MHz overclocked to 550MHz for about three years now. Runs 24/7 and is pretty stable except it occasionally burps when it overheats (even though it has about 8 fans ;)

The ABIT board is a true work of art...(runs Linux RedHat configured for symetric multiprocessing, of course: is faster than our $25000 SUN which we bought just five years ago)

[TomServo]

I love MSI myself...

Never heard of 'em. Time to do a little search. ;-)