Motherboard very Polyval
6 * 2 USB and 2 firewire
accepts many different memory (Corsair Value / pro ...)
j have 2GB of corsair ram and had dessu 1GB corsair in dual channel as before
any particular problem
the sound is good to very good in 5.1 amp output on ONKYO or even by Sennheiser.
Very stable and very complete.