I recently came accross a motherboard company called mach speed. I got a raving recomendation from a local Mom&Pop computer shop. I was looking for an AMD motherboard with an nforce2 chipset. Machspeed made one and it came with a lifetime warranty, yes you read that right, a LIFETIME WARRANTY! I inquired. If your board takes a dump on you the company will replace it free of charge with the latest model of the one you bought. Not too shabby. I figured what the heck, why not. I'll give it a try. Red PCB, have on it now an AMD 2600, 2 gigs of pc 3200( board maxs at 3G) It has 5.1 onboard sound, nforce2 chipset, ethernet, 4 USB 2.0 connections on i/o panel, and connections for 4 more on mobo. It has connecting pins for my memory card reader on the mobo, as well as RAID and a few other features I don't use, so I can't really remember them right now. I have been using this mobo for well over 2 months now, with not one problem. The company website is machspeed.com, If anyone else is using or has used one of these boards, let me know, I am curious if others got the same satisfaction I have, I am debating buying another for my wifes kitchen computer.

When i built a comp for my dad, i got him a machspeed mobo. it seems pretty stable, except his CPU temp comes up as 172, which im 100% sure is not. otherwise, it was a good board for the very very low price

Glad youenjoy your mobo, I personally would buy only Intel or Asus as I do not like to take chances on any PC hardware.

I have been using a MachSpeed for about 4 months and love it. I love it because it has advanced functionality like you mentioned for a very reasonable price. I was a little skeptical at first, but I bought it because of the price, and I'm glad I did.

sgb