A7N8X-E Deluxe experiences? or other motherboard recommendations?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

List,

I've decided that I'm going to upgrade my home server from RH 9 to FC 1 
sometime before April.  I figure that that may be a good time to also 
upgrade from my 866MHz Pentium III as well. :)

I've been thinking of getting an AMD Athlon 2600+ 333MHz FSB, and an ASUS 
A7N8X-E Deluxe mother board. 
(http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-E%20Deluxe&langs=09)  I've seen 
some potential issues on this list about the nforce2 chipset, so I was 
curious about any positive or negative experiences anybody might have had 
with this mother board.

If somebody has another recommendation for a motherboard/cpu combo, I'd be 
interested in that as well.  Basically, I'm trying to get a fast motherboard 
and CPU with about 512Meg of RAM for about $250 US.  I'm only interested 
in good, name brand motherboards and RAM, I've had bad experiences with 
cheap ECS crap and don't care to repeat the experience.

The A7N8X-E Deluxe looks like it can handle two DDR 400 256 for that 
doubled speed thing, which sounds good to me.  I don't really care too 
much about AGP8x or  anything, since it'll be a server, not a desktop game 
machine.

Thanks!

Ben