Looking at the board from a system builders point of view, the board provides excellent value, with 6 Channel sound and onboard networking. Combine this with a Geforce FX 5200 and you have a very cheap modern stable PC. However looking at it from a customers point of view, you must realise that this is certainly not the fastest AMD solution available, in fact is performs below the older KT400 and the nForce2 you can expect up to a 10% performance hit when compared with those chipsets.