It's a i945 chipset instead of an i965, which probably has some kind of ramifications for memory bandwidth or supported frequencies or something, but it still looks vanilla to me.
In fact, it's a little less than vanilla. It's cream-flavor or something, since it doesn't have any IDE support. Bleh.
The GA-965P-DQ6 looks more interesting: 8 SATA ports, 6 of which can be eSATA, 1 IDE, a non SLI/Crossfire second 16xPCIe slot and Dolby Live and DTS Connect Support. Of course, it's probably a $250 board...