Oops, I must've read something wrong. Anyway, it's still worth it. The cache and FSB are most important. A plain 2500 will out perform a overclocked XP 1700.

My last 3 motherboards have been Abit (TX5, BP6, and my current KT7-RAID) so I see no reason to change.

Yeah, I've got two BP6 machines here, one is a MySQL server, and the other is my main server / firewall. I haven't had any problems with them at all. With all the hacks you can do to them, it's no wonder they got so popular. I'm considering moding one of mine so I can put PIII's on it, I'm just not sure if I trust my soldering skills enough.