if you've heard good things about the AN8 32X, if you look for reviews you will hear GREAT things about the DFI Lanparty, almost everyon on this forum building a Gaming PC, has some idea of getting ASUS, then jumps right on over to DFI. The point is, DFI works better with AMD, if you want to take full advantage of your AMD CPU, get a DFI. IF you want to Impede the performance of your AMD get an ASUS.