MSI Master or Asus A7M266

Hawke

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I am mainly looking at one of the above motherboards, with a 1.0 GHZ hopefully Axia T-bird CPU to overclock. I'm asking you all for educated, more informed than I can be, opinions of each.

I've read a lot, etc etc... so now it's just down to base opinion :)

I am also considering:
Asus's A7A266
Soyo's K7ADA ( a LOT less expensive -- almost $100 yikes )
Biostar's M7MIA (about $30 less than the MSI/Asus combos I've seen)
maybe Gigabyte's GA-7DXC but I sort of put it out of my mind a while back

although from what Anand and others say, Ali is not the way to go, and the Biostar I had been considering I later found to not have the integrated RAID... I still like some of the Soyo's features, which opened the Asus's Ali up to me heh

My take on it all is that all of the DDR boards are in their infancy and we just don't know which are going to be the most stable, fastest, and especially which will actually be able to take advantage of DDR just yet. Hmm but that's obvious I guess *shrug*

Thanks in advance for any help