I use this motherboard on a regular basis at work, and it's great. The board is reliable, stable and really well laid out. We are running it with an AMD 64X2 4200 processor and it works a treat.

The system is very stable, although I haven't tried to overclock it, and the BIOS is very easy to navigate.

I have always found MSI boards well made, the components are neatly laid out and all the SATA, PATA, USB etc, connections are easy to reach.

The only thing to note - which is not a problem if you are setting up a new system - is that the board only has 1 IDE chanel. This means you have to be happy to upgrade to SATA drives if you want more than one drive running or want to set up a RAID.

There's plenty of room for a CPU heat sink, and the northbridge heatsink copes well with daily activities.