Ptown, You might have better luck than I, but recently I was in the same boat and went with an Intel mobo. For years I was in the Asus, Abit, Gigabyte camp along with AMD processors. The problem I have found in recent years is stability. I just want a computer for day to day tasks and a really stable platform for recording. The non-Intel boards are geared almost exclusively for gaming and the stability from them is not what it was like even 5 years ago. Updates by way of bios fixes are few and far between and there's almost zero tech support available if you can even get them on the phone.
I made a pack with the devil and went with an Intel mobo and processor. It's a very stable rock solid workstation platform, no overclocking and not good for gaming by gaming standards but I don't use a computer for that. What it is great for is recording and has a few legacy PCI slots (along with the newer PCI express). You can also set it up to dual boot between Mac and Windows. 8)