No matter what I did, this board would not run stable with Mushkin ram. It wouldn't even clock stable at just 2100 GHz. I checked on Mushkin's site and found this board to be rated poorest in compatibility with their ram of the A64 boards. The added AGP lock of the Gigabyte will be a nice addition, along with the nVidia chipset. I liked the features the Abit board had to offer, but since the RAM cost twice the amount of the Abit board and the fact that it's the last of the BH-5 RAM i decided to try another.