ASUS always provides quality motherboards with lots of innovative features and the M3N-HT tries desperately to live up to that reputation. In this era of multiple, monster sized video cards and gigantic power supplies, the new 780a chipset offers an energy saving feature that I applaud and feel should eventually be implemented in all enthusiast motherboards in some fashion. The onboard graphics is no slouch either as it is designed for High Definition video playback. Add to this features like 3-way SLI, ESA and PCIe 2.0, and its hard not to get excited about the possibilities..