Excellent! This really helps cement the idea of going AMD for my next rig. It means I can invest in a decent motherboard knowing it'll do a while meaning I might actually use that much vaunted "upgrade-path". Often with Intel if you buy a mid-high range chip and appropriate motherboard by the time something comes along that's worth upgrading to it's on a new socket; it makes it less appealing to invest in a really nice Z-chipset board.