ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ Motherboard - ATX, Socket AM3+, AMD 970 Chipset, AMD FX, 2133MHz DDR3 (O.C.), SATA 6.0 Gb/s, RAID, 8-CH Audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 3.0, CrossFireX ReadyItem#: A455-9700  |  Model#: M5A97 R2.0

Exceptional motherboard

My new Budget Friendly build handles Microsoft's FSX with ease along with Wow and Diablo 3. All 3 games are pretty much maxed out in settings. Coupled this with the Corsair High Performance Vengeance memory, EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti video card and the AMD FX-4300 CPU running at 3.8 Ghz on Windows 7.

Great MB

ASUS is a great company that makes good quality products. This board is great for an AMD gaming rig if you want to do mild overclocking. I have no complaints easy install and awesome BIOS.

Great value

Very straightforward in every sense. This was an easy install and worked right out of the box with only minor tweaks needed. The BIOS is as intuitive as any other with the usual lack of explanation of advanced features. Google is your friend. The only warning I will give is to put your SATA optical drives on ports 5 & 6 and use IDE mode. Windows installs will probably fail otherwise.

Works

Everything was as expected. Easy to install. No problems. The basic bios has been dumbed down completely. The advanced bios lets you do whatever you want. Good for all levels of users. If you want to over clock and have no clue, it's one button. If you know what you are doing and want to tweak the F out of it, it's there.

Awsome MB

PROS: -memOK feature -I love the BIOS -User friendly OC features(maybe too friendly) -32 Gb support -Dual BIOS CONS: -No onboard GPU for for backup -No onboard USB 3.0 header -SATA ports could have been placed better.

Very Good

Over the years I have put together many computers and the motherboards of choice includes Asus at the top of the list. The only criticism is they (all manufactures) do not include enough PCI slots. I have picked up components that I would like to include in my new builds but cannot without 'buying' something more!

NIce MB for the price

Just installed this mb and is working great. Case had front usb3.0 so the 3.0 connector was big plus. Bios is easy to use and there are more sata ports than I will ever need. Would definitely recommend this board.

Nice Motherboard

First time I have had an ASUS motherboard. The bios really blew me away, you can use your mouse! Drag and drop the image of the device for boot sequence, really! I love that there are four slots for memory, plus that it handles Sata 3 and USB 3.0. Good deal for the money, would recommend.

Very Good

I got this as part of a bare bones kit and it exceeds my expectations for what I wanted (a linux box). Plenty of space for memory using 8GB boards, and both USB 2&3. There are only two SATA cables in the box, though, so if you want to use all the connections on the board you will need more cables.

Asus gets an A for this one

I have had issues with Asus in the past but decided to try again with a bundle purchase. No problems putting together new build with this MB. Its a pretty much no frills board and has been running with no issues for a week now. I thought it was odd that the cpu fan connector was bookend with chassis fan connectors. I could not tell from the board which 4 pin connector was for the chassis fan and which one was the proc fan. Had to resort to the manual. Everything else was as expected.