Zivic
Why don't you pick up a Soyo K8USA MOBO?
Do they have a version with better sound? The reason why I'm concerned so much about sound is that I don't like any of the available audio solutions for stand alone cards. CL has given me more problems then any other company in terms of driver issues which is a
MAJOR pet peeve of mine, and the other solutions simply don't warrant the price of entry IMO(not cost, all things associated). I was a big fan of Aureal, and until nVidia gets their sound cards out or unless someone else steps up to the plate with a stand alone board to rival CL's hardware I don't want to deal with an external solution at this point in time.
The price doesn't bother me in the least, if they had one with better sound for more I'd certainly consider it. If I wanted I could drop $5K building my new rig, but allowing myself to go down the 'spare no expense road' gets to be real expensive when so many shiny new toys pop up every few months. That said, last time building a rig I decided to save a few bucks on the motherboard and my wife has made it quite clear to me that I'm not to hold back at all on the mobo this time(spending an additional couple hundred bucks over a low end solution is worth it to me to avoid any headaches, even moreso to her cuz she has to listen to me bitch about it

- she was trying to get me to buy a new mobo within a week of buying my last one, had it for almost a year now).
DAPUNISHER-
I read the review of it@OCWorkbench last night and it looks like a great chipset and board.
It looks like a nice board, I like all of the options for adjustment on the board, too bad the sound is iffy. If not for that, I think I would take that over the Chaintech. That is certainly the type of board I'm looking for though.
I've seen post by users of various nF150 boards that show the lack of a functioning PCI lock so it's be prudent before purchasing a paticular nF150 based board, to try to ascertain if it does indeed have a functioning PCI lock or not.
Absolutely, from what I've read the Chaintech board that I have leaning towards does have a PCI lock.
Marlin-
Do they have a high end version of that board, perhaps using the SiS, nForce3 or ALi chipset? Only two IDE and two SATA ports is a bit lacking IMO, and no PCI lock. Other then those issues, it looks good. Not worried about the cost.