Man, I bought the basic version of this board (no RAID or USB 2) to go with an AMD XP1700.
IT IS UNREAL! You can't go wrong with this board or even the souped-up RU version. It is the most feature-packed board I've seen lately with GREAT performance.
The 266A chipset rocks with DDRRAM. The BIOS is also a tweakers paradise, and all reviews I've read about it gush with nothing but praise for this board.
Buy one, you won't regret it!