I've got one of these, and I built it a couple of weeks ago with an A64 3500+ :P The 940 BE arrives tomorrow.

I've installed the various Asus software, but I suspect none of it is any use - apart from chipset drivers of course.

Does anyone have a use for PC Probe, and AI Suite etc? I've not looked into it in great detail, but I believe they install services in Windows, which I'm not a super fan of.

Finally the sound card also creates services and a memory resident thing to detect speakers etc being inserted. Since I have a set of headphones plugged in and I don't change from that I've no use for their naff services and shiny lights. Has anyone experimended paring the sound drivers down to the minimum to allow perfect functionality, but without the scrapeware and bloat?