Haha funny post. People who complain about necro-posts in the actual necro-post, are just as bad as the person who originally necro-posted.
I just installed a M5A97 R2 board in my system the other day, works great. Triple boot with WinXP/7/Linux Mint 12. Currently have a 1090T, but may upgrade to 8350 in the future, or if something better comes along. One slight problem I had with the board is that sound didn't work in windows 7 with drivers included with motherboard. So I uninstalled the audio device/drivers, and then let windows 7 automatically update the sound drivers, and no problem.