Abit does make an extremely nice board. I've built several systems with them and haven't had a problem yet (personally). The Asus A7V333-X is a nice single channel motherboard if your in the market. Asus products are very stable and very nice. Also keep in mind that if you buy a dual channel motherboard you DO NOT need 2 sticks of memory. They will run just fine with one stick of memory. Also, MSI makes a mean motherboard. I run a MSI K7N2-ILSR Delta motherboard in my system and I love it.