you'd have one if you work at where they make the mobo's and personally cherry pick one after testing all of them.
Chai is right... Yep.You're right The chipsets are the same in terms of performance... Here is a little comparison ... : Abit's AV8 3rd Eye --- Via's K8T800Pro Epox's 9NDA3+ --- the Nvidia Nforce 3 Ultra 'If you are choosing between NForce 3 Ultra and K8T800 Pro chipsets, it would be advisable to base your choice on board peripherals, rather than performance, because they are both so similarly matched. If you're choosing between these two boards, we have to say that if raw performance and tweaking are your thing, then the Abit is for you. If you could happily trade some of those tweaks for a better sound system, go with the Epox. '
oh my god... don't even mention about VIA... The VIA ethernet drivers sucks, they have no support of Linux systems...