Hi Dan

Any board with the VIA VT82C686A/B* South Bridge gives pretty good envstats,
mine pops out:

    % envstat
     TSENS1 TSENS2 TSENS3   FAN1   FAN2 VSENS1 VSENS2  Vcore VSENS3 VSENS4
       degC   degC   degC    RPM    RPM    Vcc    Vcc    Vcc    Vcc    Vcc
      36.40  39.00  20.60   6617   2700   1.69   0.29   3.45   5.10  12.25

Sadly ASUS seem to disable VIA env hardware on their boards in favour for
their own env hardware, but I've not seen any support for that yet.

As for network cards, since I switched to Intel i82557 cards I've not had any
problems - yet.

The board I've got is from Soltek, running a AMD CPU. The visually the quality
is ok, ASUS is better. A nice feature of this board is a separate temp probe
that you can put on a device to be monitored. In my case I put it on top of
the CPU just beside the die, under the heat sink. Interesting the 2.6 degree
difference.

Anyway the box runs 24x7 in my lounge, both my wife and I use it and it's rock
solid. Or shall I say NetBSD is rock solid! :)

reds
--et

* I've read on this list about problems with the IDE interface and DMA, but
I've not experienced any since I only run one device per channel.