ECS, like any other cheapie mobo - you get what ou pay for. When your boss wants to meet a certain price point, they don't care if it was assembled by 5 year olds in taiwan or not. Actually the biggest problem with the ecs boards we use (K7EM) is: when loading windows xp, you need extremely reliable ram to get the setup to complete. I usually get many bsod's during setup with cheap ram, install some crucial ram, no problemo.

I think i'll stick with asus.