Not really. The current 990FX boards like the Sabertooth, Crosshair V, Gigabyte UD5, MSI GD80 and even the ASRock Extreme9 are all very very solid motherboard. The 1000 chipset will have some more bells and whistles but at the end of the day, they wont be any better performing motherboards. And with Steamroller coming out in less than a year and running on AM3+ sockets, there is really no reason not to buy a 990FX board not.