The TweakTown crew take a 790FX board and a 780a board, and run them both through a bevy of benchmarks to answer a question that I've been wondering about since 780a hit the streets. I think that the 780a's updated SB700 southbridge may give it a leg up in some applications.

"NVIDIA is not one to be outdone though; while focusing on the Intel platform, AMD has finally started to produce AMD chipsets again, and while the 680a was supposed to be the big momma for NVIDIA’s AMD line-up, it simply didn’t sell due to AMD’s lacklustre CPU architecture when compared to the Core 2 series."