Installation
Installation of the motherboard was pretty straightforward. The only problem I ran into was that it wouldn't initially boot. After having a brain spasm and overlooking the most obvious troubleshooting step, it took me almost an hour to figure out the problem. I started with the most obvious things (reseating the video card, removing things one at a time, etc) until I'd eventually taken everything out, removed the processor and then reinstalled everything one piece at a time. Finally, I realized I hadn't yet tried to clear the CMOS (DUH)! Once I did that, I was finally able to get into the BIOS. I took a look at the BIOS and didn't see anything amiss, so I exited out and restarted. No boot again. Getting annoyed, I went ahead and cleared the CMOS again and got back into the BIOS. I then noticed that when the setup was set to auto for the CPU and RAM, it was trying to set my FSB at 200Mhz synch, because it was reading the PC3200 RAM. I went in and manually set the system to 166Mhz (333) synch and I was able to boot up and continue installation with no further problems.

Overclocking
I was hoping for an extremely high overclock with this motherboard, since I'd heard that it could run the 200Mhz FSB without a problem. I had the RAM that could take it and I had no PCI cards to interfere with anything (not that it should matter anyway, since the PCI bus is locked at 33Mhz). Unfortunately, 200Mhz was just not in the cards for me. I've read in certain Asus forums that some people have been able to get their Asus A7N8X Deluxe systems running 200Mhz FSB synch with no problems, but I don't even get close to that. My system will max out at 180Mhz FSB synch, which gives me a total clock speed of 2.25Ghz, which is Athlon XP2800+ speed. At that FSB, I'm able to run with very aggressive RAM timings and have no issues. I could get up to 185Mhz FSB, but at that speed 3Dmark2001SE will crash to the desktop, no matter how much I loosen up my RAM timings or increase VCORE and VDIMM. I even tried lowering the multiplier, which I could do, but it still didn't help me. I was able to boot into windows at 11x190Mhz, but I couldn't run SiSoft Sandra or 3Dmark2001SE without crashing. Yes, you read the last sentence correctly, this mobo does unlock the multipliers of a factory locked CPU. At least it did in my case. I've read in different forums that this was not the case for other people though, so your mileage may vary. Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the overclock that I can get. I set the AGP at the required 66Mhz and I know that the PCI bus is running at 33Mhz, so I'm happy with the resulting increase in speed that I have. It's not running a 200Mhz FSB, but it's still pretty darn fast. The overclocking options on this board are great, but except in very rare cases this board is not for hardcore overclockers. I've heard of a few people running over 200Mhz FSB with this board, but most have either done some type of hardware mod, are running something other then air cooling, or are using modded BIOS. The bottom line is, if you want to play with overclocking a little but aren't going to shoot for the moon, this board will not let you down.

Stability
I've had this system for about 2 months now and I've had no stability issues at all. I've stressed this system as hard as I could and I've only had it lock up only one time, while I was in the BIOS with the system overclocked past the point of stability. I've run this system day and night for the entire time I've had it at 180Mhz FSB and it runs extremely stable. I've run benchmarks, games, office apps and more and this system just breezes through everything. It may not be the "fastest" system in every way, but I don't have anything bad to say about the stability of this chipset. The one thing I do want to mention is that I've had problems with the onboard 3COM NIC on my board. Several times over the last couple months, the 3COM NIC has stopped resonding out of the blue. Nothing seems to help, even a reboot of the system. I've always been able to swap to the NVIDIA NIC and contiue on, and a day or week later the 3COM NIC will function fine again. It's just disturbing to me that this happens at all. This won't affect most people, as most won't need the second NIC anyway, but if you're going to use this for a server running internal and external network connections, or if you want this board for internet connection sharing, you may want to think twice. Of course, newer drivers may take care of this in the future. If the dual NIC aspect of this board is one that interests you, make sure you do your homework on this subject.

Benchmarks
For comparison purposes, I ran the nForce2 system against my old Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition system, which is now my LAN party box. I'm including benchmarks from the Asus system with 166Mhz FSB and 180Mhz FSB settings. System specs are below:

As you can see, both systems are running XP2600+ processors, though the Asus system is running one with a 333Mhz bus and the Soyo system is running one with a 266Mhz bus. This is due to the limitation of the Soyo motherboard.

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For those who wonder about the benefit of the TwinBank memory architecture, check out these scores:

As you can see, you lose a little speed when you're not using the TwinBank Memory Architecture, but the performance is still good, even with just one DIMM. You definitely don't have to fear that performance will be horrible if you only have one stick of RAM.