The novice user, with a little thought, should be able to set up this board without too much trouble. The manual even includes a nice table of CPU and their respective settings. The case connectors are mounted sideways on the board, making hooking up the board that much easier. A couple other features of the board are nice. It also comes with remote wake-up support.
Performance is fine.
The board is very stable, as long as you have good memory in it. It ran stably at high bus speeds, including the undocumented 112 and 124 MHz speeds. I did run into a problem with Winstone 98, but this is not something I'm blaming on the board, but on the software. Unreal ran quite well on the board on both the Cyrix and AMD CPU's, although it was slower on the Cyrix. So, obviously there are more pros than cons with this board.