Things have really changed from the days when the BX chipset was king. Intel is no longer the only player who can produce solid chipsets anymore, and it's not for the worse. The 4D845A mother board we're looking at today should appeal to thrifty buyers as ACorp produce relatively inexpensive motherboards for the value market. The only other ACorp board we've tested was the 7KT266A, a socket A board, and it proved to be quite stable in operation and performance