Before you buy this board- there is one small disadvantage- it features a ACL 650 5.1 audio and not the ACL 8 channel audio in all the newer mobo's.
I had asked people here about this and they had suggested rightly that it won't make much of a difference with an entry level speaker system.
However i saw the machine at my friends who has 2 systems- one with this Mobo and the other an Intel based. The intel based machine sounded much better.
To be fair, he had a very sophisticated speaker setup.
IT might not make much of a difference if you'll go for entry level stuff like maybe the ATP3.
However if ure a enthusiast- u might have to go for a Creative SB live 24 bit worth 2k extra with this board.
With that money u can probably go for a good board like the MSI k8N Neo4 platinum from the outset..
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