I've been very happy with my nForce2 board. I did originally have some trouble with the manufacturer's IDE drivers. The DVDRom and CDR didn't seem to be getting the full system rights, so they wouldn't autostart and some game CD verification routines failed. This was fixed simply by going with the default windows IDE drivers.

This chipset comes with a very usable 5.1 surround sound system built in. Depending on the motherboard it'll come with one or two 10/100 or 1G network ports. The only card I plugged into this board is the Graphics card.

If you get a board with this chipset, remember to get two matched memory sticks to take advantage of the bandwidth increase.