As a natural evolution of the already popular A7V design, ASUS has delivered the new DDR-enabled A7M266 motherboard to the rapidly expanding Athlon marketplace. The A7M266 is perhaps one of the most interesting boards to arrive for Socket A, as this boards features a variety of AMD, VIA, C-Media, 3COM, and Asus hardware technologies. The A7M266 extends hardware level support for overclocking, 4.1-channel 3D sound, and even an optional network controller. Our review of this exciting new motherboard offers an in-depth feature analysis, plus performance comparisons to AMD's reference 760, VIA's KT-133, and ALI's Magik1 chipsets.