liking the gigabyte for being a HTPC/Media server,, all 3 boards have lots of sata, but even 7 ports can be low, nice to see 3 x1 slots for cheap raid cards that you can get with some wd drives..

my current setup has 5 HDD & 1 SSD but no more ports available even after adding a raidcard (dvd drive uses 1 sata as well)

Even if you choose to amp this one up a bit with a decent GPU, you would still have 2 x1 slots left, the other boards make leave you with 1 or none

Thanks for the review Nathan. These boards actually look pretty good to me. (especially the ASUS)

Was the Hybrid Crossfire tried out?

Was there any test of the PCI-E slots in Crossfire?

I have an FM1 system that works pretty good. Looks like AMD just improved on the platform.

That's something I don't see tested a lot is the Crossfire performance. I'd love to see that. I'm planning on a Crossfire setup for a fully AMD build.