The installation process of Windows XP showed no difference from such an operation is carried out on most common desktop PCs, all of the drivers could be found either on the supplied CD or downloaded from the manufacturer site. The system performance is quite satisfying and depends on the CPU you have installed, the integrated graphics core in GeForce 6150 seems to be the strongest one among all the present ones (except maybe forthcoming AMD 690G but it is not available yet). It admires us particularly in the video decoding tasks. Especially in its video decoding tasks it particulary admires us. It is a real pity that the Stand-By mode would not work, but you can hibernate and wake up your system correctly.

It maybe seems unusual but Kubuntu Linux works with this board worse than with the some exotic hardware based on the rare chipsets like VIA CN700 etc. You can install it rapidly and smoothly but the LAN supports leave inactive. Yes, both of them. Maybe it is not problem with the NVIDIA chipset support but just with the controllers from Marvell. Anyway it is hard to do anything being disconnected from the network nowadays.