Advice needed regarding 865PE Neo2 FISR

I intend to order this motherboard either tomorow or Monday morning (depends if I'll find the VGA card I'm looking after). However I heard some disturbing rumors form some friends and so I thought this is the place to ask for advice:
1) which BIOS is the best to use? I heard the 1,3 BIOS causes a lot of problems regardign stability and that it had being pulled from MSI's site.. which is a lie as I can see it here!
Is anyone suing it and what's your experience with it?
Should I use the 1.2 version instead ? Because I've heard that 1.2 does not allow you to disable the auto-overclockign feature... which might causde lock-ups if I chose to fine-tune the OC myself.
2) I intend to run a RAId array . Can I boot from this array or I 'll ahve to buy a PATa disk as well?
More so... can I boot from either the INTEL controlled RAID or from the Promise RAID as well??? (because documentation on the Promise RAID controller is very thin... I'ver read the manuals and they are NOT at all informative on the matter. So I'm wondering: how do you set up the system so that it'll boot from the Promise RAIDs?? And ..is it better to boot from the Promise raids or from the ICH5R ones?
Because I think the Promise controller routs the data through the PCI so there is a theoretical limit of 133MB/s where as the ICH5R goes directly through the Northbridge chip so this is not a problem!
3) Is it true that this board has some trouble cooperationg with an ATI 9700PRo based VGA card? I've reas of a few cases of malfunctions especially in overclocked systems.
Thanks in advance for any answers.

koumooo,
I´ll give you my experience after just a couple of days with my new 865PE Neo2FIS2R board.
What I´ve found is that it´s a good Board with high potential, but also that it requires quite a bit of work to get there and fully get reveny of that potential.
However, My main interest is to get a stable system, not only with default values but with OC as well.
To be honest I don´t really care so much about PAT and DOT
since I only can reach to "Fast" and "Captain levels right now with PAT and DOT, but What was important for me was that when OC to 250FSB it was possible to lower AGP/PCI
values ( otherwise system crash) ) to 67/33 which made it possible to run a stable system at 3.01GHz and a mem.speed
at 4910 in Sisoft Sandra.
Thats good enough for me..........
Maybe I give more attention to PAT and DOT when I get high
performance mem and a High Perf. VGA card and hopefully a 1.4 bios-update.
So again, I think it´s a good board if you use it this way.

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