Considering buying this board used for around $80... Any stability issues i should know about? This is for a budget box for a friend who wants onboard vid/aud/lan. He won't be doing much gaming, mostly music recording (he's spending the bulk of the money on Digidesign hardware).

I've looked at all my similar cost alternatives and it's essentially come down to this board or the Asus A7N266-VM (which is the 220D chipset w/ 3pci slots, vs the MSI which is 420D w/ 5 pci slots). Once again, gaming is not a real issue. Also, ECS motherboards are out of the question, I know I can get 7 of them for the price of any other motherboard, but I've tried one for audio recording and it was terrible, even with a highend audio card installed, popping noises all over.

I'd just as soon get the Asus board, but he'd really like the additional PCI slots... doesn't necessarily need them (yet) but would like the option to be there. So once again, any issues or strong recommendations against the MSI board?

Or if you know of a motherboard (NON-ecs) that can take DDR and an athlon xp, has onboard audio, maybe lan, and onboard video, or is cheap enough that I can through in an agp vid card for a total price of $80, please let me know. Thanks.