Thanks mate. Never used the front audio socket on my PC. I use a fan controller and as for the lack of IDE, will just have to buy a SATA DVD drive. Will wait and see how the evga boards turn out to be. If they're no big deal will definitely buy the Gigabyte.No problems with the P67A-UD4. Using f5 bios and its smooth sailing.
The mobo does have 1-2 probs though.
A) Front audio plug is right by the rear IO ( Why so far away I will never know )??
B) CPU fan control is possible but not SYSTEM FAN which is a bit annyoing.
C) No IDE connector on the board.
Apart from these minior faults the mobo is rock solide and stable with 8GB of Ripjaw memory.
I dont need EFI bios of ASUS I perfer the old style bios, and I perfer the all black mobo design.
Quality board.