i dun know about the mobo being good or bad (sorry, too lazy right now to look it up)
but i think for a "rookie-pc-lover" like yourself, the A7V8x is a great mobo. Its fairly cheap, $80 or less if you can find.
edit:
just looked up the motherboard,
its a pentium board :dead: :blackeye: if thats your gig, cool, but tell you right now, for "rookie-pc-lovers" i think amd is the way to go...almost same performance at certain clock speeds (dont flame me, i know no amd cpu and come up to the 3.2Ghz HT P4) and AMD its tons cheaper.
anyways, I do thing the mobo is a good mobo, as it supports
ddr400
agp8x
USB2.0
ata133
6 channel onboard sound
To take full advantage of your cpu (depending on how fast it is) DDR400 is nessary, and Agp8x can go with todays videocards. again, i think its a good mobo, but depending on how much it costs, there could be an alternate.