Asus and Gigabyte have NEVER caused me grief. Not one RMA... well except once when I had one too many and hooked up usb wrong
My last Gigabyte machine mainnboard:
GA-7N400 Pro2 is the supreme platform for latest AMD Athlon XP 400MHz FSB processor. Powered by the revolutionary NVIDIA nForce?2 Ultra 400 platform processors and industry cutting edge technology, this platform delivers new levels of performance and functionality for today¡¦s most demanded tasks. The nForce?2 platform processors not only carries the new generation architecture consisting of dual channel DDR controller and AGP8X graphics interface, but also integrates the innovative Dynamic adaptive speculative pre-processor (DASP) and Hyper-Transport Technology to boost the overall system performance. This platform provides full communication suite of Gigabit LAN connection, IEEE 1394, and USB2.0 interface for full range of connectivity. In addition, Serial ATA and IDE RAID provide superior input/output performance and data protection to the system. GA-7N400 Pro2 delivers an ideal platform with outstanding performance for home and office environment.
And a steal at $133 CAD