Yea, its definetly a good choice for ppl that want to wait, but dont. I have found that ULi chipset to be decent...i havent had any problems with it. For the OC'ing comment, i can say that its not the best overclocker...but you can get a moderate overclock running stable, the thing that will most likely hold you back is the poor voltage options. Lots of higher end DIMM's need 2.7+ volts and this board max's out at 2.7 on the HIGH setting in the bios, that could certainly cause problems. I can say that in my 6+ months of owning this board, i havent had it stop responding once, that reviewer probably missed something, bad drivers, etc. I only use 1 PCI card, my audigy 2 ZS and its in the bottom slot, its not that long and only poses a problem when i try to pull the bios battery without taking the card out...minimal problem to say the least.