Pros & Cons

Pros

• Great features
• Good Overclocking
• Good performance
• Stable
• Future-proof to an extent
• Widely available

Cons

• Bad place for ATX power connector
• Strange rise in CPU heat
• No Voltage I/O adjustment for DDR SDRAM

Conclusion

This board is better than other boards for one obvious reason, it has everything you need and want and nothing you don't. The onboard RAID, audio, and LAN equals a lot of money saved by buying this board rather than buying it all separately. Also, it means more open PCI slots. The KT266A chipset is very promising and offers very nice performance, when looking at other reviews of the Dragon Plus, keep in mind that the benchmarks you will see on those sites weren't based on Windows XP and then make that choice to upgrade or not. I would say that this board is more stable with XP than it is with 2000 and that's also a plus. Although there are cons to this board, the pros far outweigh them and because of that, we have to recommend this board for it's superior performance and the value of the components that it is integrated with. If you're a power user, this board will not disappoint with its overclocking features and if you're just a enthusiast, this board will give you all that you need now and a lot of things you will want in the future.

SLRating: 9/10

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