When you buy an ECS motherboard, you have to understand that you're getting a board that's extremely cost-effective without sacrificing on stability. However, you have to cut corners somewhere to make a board this affordable and ECS usually chooses to not concentrate on features like overclocking. The K7VTA3 v3.1 falls in the same category. It will be a good motherboard to use as a server for your LAN or maybe a PC for a loved one.