Help educate me about chipsets

[UbiquitousThem]

I am in the process of replacing some suspect parts in my computer and the first one up is the motherboard. I am planning to keep my current processor and ram so I started looking at socket AM3 boards. I noticed a sizeable price range and reasoned some of it is do to the chipset used. I had payed no attention to them in the past so I deciede to try and get some understanding. I eventualy came a cross this article.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-motherboard-guide,2546-6.html

It is just the tipe of info I was looking for but it appears to be 2 years out of date. Is there an updated version or can someone fill in the newer chipsets? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[nna2]

the 970 and 990FX chipsets are the newest from the AMD side, i would reccomend getting a mobo based on them, but if you plan to use mATX form factor, you going to have to use the 880G chipset, which is still an alright setup

 

[UbiquitousThem]

Best answer selected by UbiquitousThem.

 

[dish_moose]

Which cpu do you have. I don't want to start a war but now may be the time to jump to the I side.
-Bruce