A few quick questions, if I may (since I'm considering upgrading to this platform soon):
- Do you use the Nvidia reference motherboard drivers or the ones from your motherboard manufacturer?
- If you use Nvidia drivers have you installed the IDE driver? Has it caused any problems?
- Is the built in Firewall as bad as people say?
- Do you need to do the "F6 trick" to install SATA drivers when installing XP onto a single (non-RAID) sata drive?
- I've heard about CPU drivers and XP patches for dual core processors. What's that all about? Are they needed and what do they do?
- How good/bad is the Realtek ALC850 inbuilt sound? Is it comparable to NForce 2 'SoundStorm' or is it considerably worse? Do you use Realtek driver or Nvidia driver?
- Anything else you would like to add?