ya but its like the intel vs amd argument the nvidia chipset is good, but price wise a maximus formula is way better then a striker extreme, heck the maximus formula is better then the striker 2 extreme. a few people on here have also said that nvidia probably fixed a few bugs with the 780i, if they did, i think anandtech would have mentioned it all they said was they are using the same old 680i north bridge and a new pci-e 2.0 south bridge chip. its not even a new and improved 680i northbridge its the same old chip with the same problems. i love amd like i love nvidia, all you have to do tho is buy the better product. amd need to pick up its socks in the cpu area, nvidia needs to do the same in the chipset area.