Originally Posted by MudPie
There's been a couple of threads mentioning the Powerlink is not compatible with the Shimano 3x series.
Given a choice, I'd go for the SRAM chain. I've been running them for 5+ years and not a problem. I don't believe Shimano chains are better than SRAM.
I'll almost certainly look for a SRAM chain in the future, but for now I'm hoping to get my money's worth out of the current one... it has less than 200 miles on it (that goes for the entire bike, actually). So far, they seem to be interacting quite well.
I'm not sure which chains are included in the Shimano 3x series (forum/google searches weren't all that revealing).