New mobo for XP CPU - which one?

Hi all,

I'm thinking about buying a new motherboard, and wanted to hear if you guys
have any good suggestions. It doesn't have to be Abit, but I've been very
happy about my KT7A-RAID and BH6 boards.

My needs a

1) Sockat A (I have a Palomino 2000+ I wanna put inthere)
2) Room for a Silent Viking 2 cooler (80x80mm)
3) Some way of connecting 5 IDE drives (RAID/SATA)
4) I don't want some cheap crap (like ECS)
5) OTOH it shouldn't be too expansive either

I've been looking around a bit and found a few interesting boards:

Asus A7N8X DeLuxe /GD ATX

Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL

Abit NF7-S

The Asus card looks to have a passive chipset cooler as opposed to other two
boards. That's nice (that would save me from buying and installing a passive
Zalman heatsink which would void the warranty). Is the fan on the NF7-S
noisy?

Info and experience with any of these boards will be much appreciated, as
well as as suggestions for other boards.

TIA

Devast8or

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