An Abit AV8 was my first "Good" new motherboard. I came into some money and decided to build a then-new Socket 939 setup, with a 3200+.

I recall they had one BIOS release that bricked boards, which I missed by not downloading it the first day of availability. The board was eventually destroyed by a sketchy PSU which killed the AGP slot and the Geforce 6800LE that was in it.

Later I tried an IP35-E, but had problems (two different memory sets failed) so I returned it for the Gigabyte P35-DS3L I actually wanted but was out of stock at the time.