AMD is planning on discontinuing the socket 939 for the new AM2 setup..so prices for 939 boards and processors are dropping accordingly. I just upgrade my system from a xp2500 with ABIT NF7-S to my current setup. The best part the board is really good overall and inexpensive. You have the option to use your current AGP video card and memory and also be able to add PCI-E card also to run up to 4 monitors. There is no PCI-X but for about 65USD..who cares. In addition there is no firewire so you will need to get a pci card for that and the IDE configuration is odd but with a little patience it runs solid. Also you can run 2 SATA and 1 SATA2 on this board. See sig.