After flashing my ASUS P5B to a pulp (in spite of the many reassuring recovery options), it was time to look for something that would be cheap enough not to bring me near a heart attack should it break. I checked out several manufacturers and ended up buying the MSI P45 Neo3-FR. I can't express just how impressed I am. Compared with what I paid the previous one, I got this one almost for free but what a package. 8 SATA ports, Intel RAID, 4 PCI ports an a far wide range of BIOS options than I am used to. Now that many manufacturers appear to be cutting back on the number of PCI slots and replacing them with PCIe 1 (what for? where are the (affordable) PCIe1 cards?), this board immediately caught my attention. As always, you end up making a number of discoveries once it is installed. Unlike previous occasions, they have with only two or three exceptions been very nice to say the least (so far, knock on wood). One very nice feature is the overclocking mechanism. By moving a couple of jumpers, you can set the FSB anything from 800 to 1600Mhz (and from what I hear, it will go even way beyond 1600). It made for the fastest overclock ever. Two seconds to move the jumpers and my C2D6600 was running very comfortably at 3Ghz without any noticeable increase in temperature. Of course, the motherboard has what it takes for more refined overclocking.   The new Intel chipset does not appear to be much better than the P35/ICH9(R) although I notice a definite improvement over the ICH8. Moving files and extracting archives is just faster.Another nice feature is the fan speed control which lets you run your fans at a user-specified minimum until temperatus reach a level than can also be set manually. Maybe some would like to see more detailed options but it is good enough for me. And at least it works. What a relief after two years of using a motherboard that had a knack for misreading temperatures and always running the fans much faster than really needed (oh the noise!). This motherboard has also corrected my impression that MSI were not even aware of the existence of that thing called Linux. Not only does everything work, you can actually find a few references to "Linux OS" as your rummage through the BIOS.Now for the exceptions I have already referred to. One is the placement of the floppy connector (yes, some people still use these things). Maybe it just reflects the dwindling popularity of the floppy but moving its slot to the bottom left corner does not show much reflection. It is the only device in my system that still uses those hideous broad cables but as it is, it has to travel all over the case and the cable is only just long enough not to cover up the SATA ports. The second one is related to RAM. This board does cannot run RAM below 667Mhz, which is a bit unfortunate. Now that I have reverted the CPU to the stock 1066 Mhz, I find that it simply is not possible to run it 1 on 1 with the RAM. The last shortcoming is the rather poor quality of the user guide, which manages to skip certain options completely. Most annoying is that it does not specify how to toggle values such as vcore or RAM voltage. Just looking at the BIOS, these seemed to me to be read-only: greyed out and no response whatsoever to the customary arrow and enter keys. I was about to contact the customer service when I came across a review that held the key(s): these values can be changed using  + and - ... D'oh! All in all, this is a great motherboard that I would recommend to anyone.<br><br>NOTE: price indication is wrong. I submitted it in euros but I see it is represented as dollars. That could make a bit of a difference now that three dollars will buy you only two euros.<br>