yeah it stinks. And at the time i spent about 350 bucks on my MB at the time, it's a top of the line (well was top of the line) asus A8N-SLi deluxe, one of the first boards to run the nforce SLi chipset. has everything on it, dual pci express 16x ports, 8 sata raid ports, 8 onboard usb ports, and i've never even upgraded the cpu even once. and now the socket and chipset are useless. I'm used to the days where i'd at least upgrade the cpu once before i had to buy a new mobo.
So SAU do you think it's worth going DDR3??? or am i better off with DDR2 and just overclocking that sucker??? i also think i'm gonna go back over to intel. It'll be my first intel based pc in about 8 years as well!!!