The stability is one thing that we fell in love with on the original KT7. Despite being around the CPU, they did not conflict with any heatsinks used. These capacitors really are big. Duracell AA batteries sticking up from your motherboard. The lack of an add on ATA 100 controller card or RAID device such as found on the Abit KT7 and Asus A7V, help keep costs down from those two motherboards.
Multiplier adjustments is the way to go for overclocking if possible.
I was able to push a Duron 700 up to 1GHz at 1.8 voltage. 1050 would post, but failed during some testing. I decided to only test the memory performance of this motherboard. We have shown in the past that motherboards based around the VIA KT133 chipset perform very similar to each other in application benchmarking, this was the case for the MSI K7T Pro 2. However one thing that usually differs between motherboards is the memory performance.