I like the little Abit board a lot, it is nice to see the work they have accomplished when other mATX boards have led people believe that most mATX can't be tweaked at all. The killer for me on the little Abit board is the one single PCI slot. If the board came with firewire I might be able to live with it, but for the home theater a/v work I want it for it simply doesn't work. None of my hardware uses HDMI either, Pioneer 53" HD RPTV has VGA and component, the little 27" LCD in the bedroom adds DVI.
I have a PCI tuner card (actually 2) for capturing video until I find a better alternative. I need firewire for some personal use and am still hoping for a connection into a STB for video capture instead of through S-Video. I'd also need a PCI slot for firewire, like I do with my Asus A8N-E board. Yes, Newegg has x1 firewire cards, but they cost almost 10 times as much as a PCI card. The cheap PCI card includes a header for front ports, none of the x1 cards have headers. I have yet to use a x1 or x4 slot.
I do think that overclockers are trying to push it farther than Abit ever intended. If one person can get it to 300 bus speeds then someone else has to get it to 310, an endless cycle until something finally breaks, then it is considered junk, and they move on to the next victim. If you could bump the bus 25Mhz on a Pentium 200MMX socket7 it was hot stuff at a 12% gain, look at expectations now. FWIW, I still have the working Pentium 200MMX CPU sitting here in case ya need one!!!