Try and work with human nature...
...human nature often has no release to working and living without going with the big dog. Depending on the price of the object this can vary. I know times are getting tight and after good employment my current state sucks and I look at things differently.
Now. I bought an Asus CHV first not after buying lesser boards and having to upgrade. I have been around that track and it is not really fun nor really cost effective. I am glad that I did not buy a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard, because when I went with the CHV...the problem in "mind" and in practice was NOT going to be the motherboard. No wishing I had bought the big dog. I bought it.
Would a Sabertooth 990FX have done as well? Yep from others reports, I do believe so, BUT I am in a position of not having to second-guess myself. I got the big dog. End of story. Now it is P/S, cooling, ram and CPU and my willingness to stay with the trial and error. To do the real deal tweaking.
The top-tier CHV now in the CHV-z version has more settings than the average user will ever need. Get G Skill ram and save oneself possible issues and get DDR3-1866 ram to begin with. They sell reasonable priced, no in the way heat spreader, ram that just works at Cas 9 at DDR3-1866 and you don't have to be a memory tweaking genius not to give away any ram performance.
So if you lean toward going 'big dog' within your price range...get the CHV now in Z version. If the big dog mentality is overcomeable...get the Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and put the savings into watercooling in the +$230.00 range. Nothing but super good cooling will allow the FX 6 and 8 core processors really walk the walk.
RGone...ster.
PS: I have cooling on my VRMs and on the Rear of the CPU socket even with my CHV. That cooling is worth it when I run P95 Blend Mode for +2 hours at 5.2Ghz. Nothing beats cooling. No board can overcome weak-arse cooling.
RGone...Again.