MSI K8T Neo 2 opinions ? advise

I just bought a MSI K8T Neo 2-F and am wanting some user feed back on this board I will be using 2x512 corsair XMS XL ram, and a gainward 5900xt vid card
is their anything I sould look out for? any user problems? I know that the nvidia version of the socket 939 is going to be a favorite here but to be honest the MSI K8T Neo 2 -F is just what I need , no firewire, no prommise raid. and since I want to run at stock speeds I am hoping I made a good choice.
oh I forgot I will be using a 3500+ CPU
any words of encouragement? after my abit AV8 experence and Uguru crap I could use some!

Hello and welcome to the forum. The setup you installed should give you a great deal of power. If you come across problems this forum is of great help. One recommendation is that you create a signature like most people have in here with your system specs to reduce the amount of guesswork when some questions are asked.
now might also be a good time to point you towards the anything under the sun part of the forum where we have a group called the Red Rockets who are people who donate their cpu idle cycle time to a distributed computing project from Stanford university that does protein folding computations. We need all the CPU power we can muster.
As always post any time you have a question, most members are friendly have a quick help for one another.
Jorge

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