Just looking at this for a HCPC and wondered haw it is. At present I am using an MSI and it crashes if I change any settings from the default. Also if anyone is using this Abit board, is that a fan I see there on the picture and if so how noisy is it?
ABits are well regarded in the 'clocking community, and this one in particular was a 'hot item' when it first came out, which if nothing else means they must be pretty damned stable at stock speeds. Not sure about the Northbridge fan, some can be a bit noisy, I often disconnect those on my Gigabyte boards .. if it's a problem you could always fit one of these pretty easily.
I'm not sure how noisy the fan is on that motherboard, but I believe that Gigabytes are well known for being just about the noisiest in that department.
I personally wouldn't be over-worried about the fan, however if you don't feel like replacing it if it proves noisy then it could be a gamble .. no SPD/IF on that other one, so you'd need a sound card for that, apart from that it seems a pretty decent board, but I've never seen any comments on it unlike the AI7.
Personally I think I would probably go with this one from Gigabyte, nice feature set including decent sound and not a great deal more, if that's of interest.