I always love AMD for their effort.their chipset is good actually.they cramped SATA 3.0 in 890fx while intel's X58 still rely on 3rd party chip.their backward compatibility are awesome.they also come with more PCIe lane.that why manufacturer can keep lower price for AMD mobo.it juz that their proc can't keep up with intel.i really hope this new gen proc will put AMD back neck to neck with intel.then,i'll seriously will migrate my system back to AMD