Still, in the mainboard area, Iwill has not had the great breakthrough or follow-up on the XA100 Plus. The VD133, although very innovative with its integrated RAID controller was not overly appreciated by the online press and never made it past a wallflower presence. Needless to say, though, that the apparently unstoppable success of the Athlon Thunderbird and its Duron counterpart is reason enough to put every possible effort into the new platform. However, the competition is almost overwhelming with the current top boards by ASUS, MSI and ABit offering any possible BIOS tweak. Performance and stability are still the factors deciding over life and death.
Stability is, further, indicative of overclocking potential.
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