A little more detail on the new Motherboards today. Notable:

One socket for all newer AMD CPUs and APUs -- now and for a few years of CPU/APU releases. "Bang for Buck" upgrading -- just buy the latest CPU or APU and plug it in. Unlike Intel in the past, AMD in the past has tried to stick with a "universal" motherboard for a few years at a time (but had one for CPU and one for APU -- now one MB fits all).

ASUS (and probably other) high end motherboards support 8 SATA drives (and probably/possibly some special extra fast SSD interfaces). I personally need 8 SATA.