Unlike the KK266-R, this board came with no IDE-RAID. The silk-screens were still temptingly visible however.

One of the few quirks of this board that I wasn't expecting was the onboard Audio. While the onboard audio was based on a C-Media chip which is generally a whole lot better then the software-based VIA AC97 codec I didn't really care for it. In my personal opinion, I would rather use a full-scale audio card and have a less expensive motherboard without the onboard support.

It would be nice to have a choice when buying a motherboard rather then having mandatory onboard audio as a "feature". But hey that's just my personal preference.

Another thing I didn't particularly like was the fact I had to move a jumper to enable 133 MHz+ bus speeds. Why couldn't Iwill just incorporate a jumperless bios like everyone else?

As we're on the subject of a minor annoyances, I was bit disappointed to find that I had to remove my AGP video card to install more memory.

However, the biggest thing I really didn't like was the fact that there was no thermal material between the Northbridge heatsink and the VIA KT133A chipset!

Even though it doesn't get too hot (okay, okay I'm being a stickler for details), it might hinder an overclocker from hitting the extreme high bus speeds in the 160 MHz+ neighborhood.