I have an Abit motherboard, but it also has a VIA chipset. This is my second one, in fact. I had a LeadTek GeForce 256 DDR card on the old board, and had scads of trouble with it. With the new board, I went for a Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 64 meg card. If you look at benchmarks and tests on several sites, the 4500 outperforms the GeForce2 MX cards by a long shot, and has a lower price. It was a snap to install, and has been very stable and performs just fine with an Athlon Tbird 1 ghz based system. While I doubt that the GeForce will fry your motherboard, I will say that in my experience the GeForce cards don't play well in Athlon/VIA based boxes. I'm sure others will have differing opinions. Glenn > ATTENTION!!!!!!!!! I'm been worried that because of a report that was posted said that the GeForce video card was installed on a Soyo motherboard, it was fine for one year then the video card was failing and even when antother one was inserted in the Soyo motherboard's AGP slot, no video was displayed!!!!!!!!! > Does this mean that a GeForce video card will fail with motherboard getting fried if I have a Soyo motherboard??? However, that person that posted I believe > said that he or she overclocked the bus on motherboard. But, I have another major worry, that if my motherboard has a Via chipset, the GeForce video card will have messed up graphics that can't be fixed (distorted video and/or tearing). HELP!!!!!!!!! The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com