RAM | 32 GB DDR3 1800 |
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Memory Speed | 1333 MHz |
Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 6 |
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ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
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Brand | ASUS |
CPU Socket | Socket AM3+ |
Compatible Devices | Personal Computer |
RAM Memory Technology | DDR3 1800 |
Chipset Type | AMD 970/SB950 |
Memory Clock Speed | 1333 MHz |
Platform | No Operating System |
Memory Storage Capacity | 32 GB |
RAM Memory Maximum Size | 32 GB |
Graphics Card Interface | PCI Express |
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For gaming | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Tech Support | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.5 |
Stability | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | — | 4.2 | 4.1 |
Value for money | — | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
Easy to install | 4.2 | — | 4.1 | — | 4.4 | 4.4 |
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platform | no operating system | windows 10 | windows 10 | windows 7, windows 8, windows vista business, windows vista enterprise, windows vista home basic, windows vista home premium, windows vista ultimate, windows xp home, windows xp professional | windows 10 | windows 10 |
cpu socket | Socket AM3+ | Socket AM4 | Socket AM4 | AM3+/AM3 | Socket AM4 | Socket AM4 |
memory slots | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
memory capacity | 32 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB |
compatible processors | — | — | AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen | AMD 2nd Gerenration Ryzen | AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen, AMD 2nd Gerenration Ryzen, AMD Athlon | AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen |
card interface | pci e | pci e | pci e | pci e, pci | pci e | pci e |
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The M5A97 R2.0 features the AMD 970/SB950 chipset and supports the latest AMD socket AM3+ for 8-core processors. With a new Socket AM3+, it offers usability of Socket AM3 or AM3+, allowing the user a choice of previous or current AMD CPUs. Dual Intelligent Processor technology is now available on this ASUS AMD motherboard, integrating the EPU (Energy Processing Unit) and TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) hardware based processors for the ultimate in energy savings and processor scaling. ASUS EPU conserves energy by intelligently moderating power and load requirements in real-time while TPU provides intelligent system scaling for incredible increases in platform performance while retaining stability.
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Technical Details
Brand | ASUS |
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Item model number | M5A97 R2.0 |
Item Weight | 3.26 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 10.35 x 2.09 x 12.91 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 10.35 x 2.09 x 12.91 inches |
Number of Processors | 1 |
Computer Memory Type | DDR3 SDRAM |
Batteries | 1 CR2 batteries required. |
Manufacturer | ASUS |
ASIN | B008V9959O |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | October 6, 2017 |
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4.3 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank | #734 in Computer Motherboards |
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Customers like the modern BIOS interface, features, and quality of the motherboard. They mention it has a good set of features, is reliable, and has enough features to grow. Customers also appreciate the clear instructions and labels on the board. Overall, customers find the board to be a solid board for a fair price.
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Customers like the performance of the motherboard. They say it works well with the FX-8320E processor, the BIOS works well, and the Ai suite does a good job at auto tuning their processor. The CPU works well and the RAM works well. The board does.a good. job when it comes to regulating, and it runs like a champ.
"...The following are the parts I ordered for the build and they all work well together...." Read more
"...As for installation, it was a breeze and it booted right up on the first try. The UEFI BIOS was simple although I prefer the advanced version myself...." Read more
"...HD 4870, installed 8G memory on it and it's been very solid and runs pretty coon with only slight overclocking...." Read more
"...was a cause of the MoBo crash, all I know is that the P/S was not working properly. Got a replacement P/S from a local store, and all is good now...." Read more
Customers like the quality of the motherboard. They mention it's very reliable, rock solid, and well put together. Some mention that the board is physically fine, but some of the firmware and bussing is of poor quality. Overall, customers are satisfied with the performance and reliability of this product.
"...Absolutely rock solid, no issues or hangups. Motherboard runs cold for me and has enough goodies that I am impressed...." Read more
"...I was looking for, it fit my budget, and because ASUS makes very reliable products. I was torn between this board and the Gigabyte product...." Read more
"...and a older ATI HD 4870, installed 8G memory on it and it's been very solid and runs pretty coon with only slight overclocking...." Read more
"...The bios was very easy to navigate and understand and made my first time enjoyable and trouble free...." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the motherboard. They say it is a solid board for a fair price, with plenty of BIOS options for overclocking. Some customers also mention that it fits their budget and provides good performance for its price.
"...Bottom line, this is an excellent motherboard for the price if not the best in this price range...." Read more
"...Kudos to them. The MoBo is very capable for the price. Plenty of connections for SATA, PCI-E, fans, etc...." Read more
"...this motherbaord because it had the features I was looking for, it fit my budget, and because ASUS makes very reliable products...." Read more
"...recommend this for a "Hard Care" gamer, but it's a solid inexpensive motherboard for the casual gamer or for almost any other use...." Read more
Customers find the setup of the motherboard to be very easy. They mention that the instructions are clear, and the labels on the board itself are very clear. They also appreciate the UEFI BIOS, which is easy to understand and manage settings. Overall, most are satisfied with the ease of setup of this motherboard.
"...The bios is very easy to navigate and you can use a mouse in it. The bios flash was painless and I was off and running...." Read more
"...anything, actually the motherboard is laid out to make it easy to install most peripherals without interfering with anything else...." Read more
"...Setup was easy and the wires and the mobo itself was clearly labled. The UEFI bios is beautiful and has a ton of options, and is easy to figure out...." Read more
"...The UEFI BIOS was simple although I prefer the advanced version myself...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the motherboard. They mention that it looks generally really nice, has a beautiful UEFI BIOS, and is easy to understand. They also appreciate the USB 3.0 ports and front header. Customers are also impressed with the layout of the components and how well everything fits perfectly into their build. They say the board is laid out in a standard pattern that leaves room for full size video cards.
"...The UEFI bios is beautiful and has a ton of options, and is easy to figure out...." Read more
"...The board looks great even though I don't have a window on my case. The heatsinks are an awesome anodized blue and didn't interfere with anything...." Read more
"...This board is laid out in a standard pattern that leaves room for full size video cards..." Read more
"...Works like a charm. Love the look of the MOBO and this was very helpful to insure proper installation of all my components. Would purchase again." Read more
Customers like the features of the motherboard. They say it has a good set of features, is feature-packed, and has enough features to grow. Some mention that the bios screen is well made and has loads of options. Overall, customers are satisfied with the features and functionality of the product.
"...It supports many of the AMD CPUs including the AMD FX-8120 I ordered for this board. The UEFI bios is extremely easy to navigated and adjust...." Read more
"...It runs rock stable, and has many ports and excellent features you'd expect to see on a more expensive board...." Read more
"...has quite a few PCIe x1 and PCI slots which of course is useful for expansion cards such as WIFI cards...." Read more
"...Luckily...the one i received wasn't a DOA. The MOBO is great! Quick boot up times. The UEFI thingy is awesome...." Read more
Customers like the interface of the motherboard. They say it has a modern, full-featured, and intuitive BIOS. They also appreciate the UEFI feature that allows them to easily navigate the BIOS menu. Overall, customers are satisfied with the interface and functionality of the product.
"...It comes with a very simple BIOS settings that even beginners like I, can understand...." Read more
"Glad I went with Asus - really like all the features and modern bios interface...." Read more
"It comes with all of the features you'd expect from a board at this price point, and the color scheme fits my build perfectly...." Read more
"PROS:- UEFI BIOS that is very configurable- Supports newer FX-series processors such as the 8-core black editions-..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ports of the motherboard. Some mention that it has more than enough SATA ports, USB ports, and PS/2 ports. However, others say that it doesn't have a USB 3 port that connects to the front of the case, has a driver issue with USB 3.0 ports, has defective USB 2 ports, does not have a 19 pin dual USB 3.0-connector, and has faulty USB 2 headers. Overall, opinions are mixed, but the board has t a nice feature set.
"...No USB 3.0 front panel header: It is in the manual, shows up on the motherboard diagrams and I visibly see it and clearly labeled...." Read more
"...It runs rock stable, and has many ports and excellent features you'd expect to see on a more expensive board...." Read more
"...It DOES have two 3.0 jacks, but would have liked to use the USB 3.0 front side plugs on the case. Might buy a separate card for that connector...." Read more
"...Drives are all good, RAM is all good, GPU's are all good, and so on...." Read more
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I was worried about the board not booting because of the new FX-8320 processor. My bios was the older one that did not "support" the newer processor. However, the board booted and recognized the CPU on the first try. Not wanting to tempt fate, I loaded the newest bios drivers from Asus onto a USB flash drive and flashed the bios. The bios is very easy to navigate and you can use a mouse in it. The bios flash was painless and I was off and running. I loaded Win 7 onto it, and since I had previously had Win 7 on my Intel 330 SSD I tried to install it after formatting it through the Win 7 installation processor. Win 7 kept giving me an EFI error (something about my HD being formatted improperly for EFI). I almost decided to throw the CPU away at that point, but a quick look at the Bios settings, I turned off "Secure Boot" (I believe this is a Win 8 mandatory thing). After turning off Secure Boot everything went flawlessly. The only funny thing was Win 7 didn't automatically install drivers for the onboard NIC and I had to install the drivers which is the first time in many builds that has ever happened to me.
Using this board for about 2 weeks now I cannot say enough good things about it. Absolutely rock solid, no issues or hangups. Motherboard runs cold for me and has enough goodies that I am impressed. I'd used Gigabyte for a few builds and after it failed I decided to change up to Asus. I'm very pleased with this board and if it holds up I'll always purchase Asus boards from now on.
Side note, on my USB Logitech G35's I was plagued with the awful popping when playing music and was pulling my hair out trying to stop it on my previous Gigabyte board (I think it was a 770 version). I tried everything and just decided to get used to it. With this new board there is absolutely no popping whatsoever so a nice surprise there!
Full specs:
FX-8320
M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ board
8 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3
Corsair TX-650
Sapphire Vapor-X HD-5770 (Just ordered a Sapphire HD-7870, so hopefully it works just as good!)
Intel 330 SSD 128 GB
Toshiba DVD burner
3 Western Digital 500 GB HDs
**UPDATE 12/2/2013**
This motherboard has been absolutely great for me and I've been very pleased with it. I upgraded my CPU cooler from the Coolermaster Hyper 212+ to the Corsair H80 and worked around my cooling situation in my Antec 300 case with some great new fans including an Antec Spot fan directly onto my socket/VRM area. I've sort of reached a point where I can no longer increase my overclock because the motherboard(and my CPU) aren't allowing me to go any higher. Even with great thermals, I worry a little pushing this board really hard. Don't let that discourage you though, this is arguably one of the best "budget" motherboard's I've ever had.
Since I've had a difficult time finding settings that work for OC'ing on this motherboard, I'll lay a few out to give anyone who is interested a starting point. I've seen people say this board will crash, burn, and melt when OC'ing so I'll sort of dispel that here.
**(Obviously, overclocking your computer is at your own risk. You void warranties and risk damaging components by doing this! Please don't emulate me unless you are truly okay with any kinds of negative or positive consequences that may come about) **
My settings for a decent overclock:
Ai overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio: 22.0
AMD turbo core: disabled
CPU bus frequency: auto
Memory frequency: 1600
CPU/NB frequency: 2200
HT: 2400
PCIE spread and CPU spread spectrum both disabled
CPU LLC: Enabled
Northbridge/cpu LLC: Auto
Adjust CPU voltage manually
CPU voltage: 1.4125
Everything else set to auto. All C6/HPC/APM disabled.
A manual CPU voltage of 1.4125 with LLC enabled on this board will shoot your voltage up around 1.44 or so under load with this board so be aware of the thermal commitment/power usage of that. Also, I chose to cool my VRM/socket area with the Antec Spot Cool just to be on the safe side messing with the voltages.
Also, Cool & Quiet cannot be enabled when you manually adjust CPU voltages on this board (I don't really understand why). Thus, your CPU will run at full voltage regardless of load. Using my H80 the socket temperature is around 35C completely idle. Under full bore load (OCCT), I'm running about 60 C on my CPU socket and 47C on my cores. A better quality board would keep the CPU socket temperature closer to the cores, but you will pay double the price for that. The thermal limits on the FX-8320/83250 is 62C on the cores and 72C on the CPU socket. All the processors that you buy are subject to the "silicone lottery" which means some will be great overclockers and some will be terrible. These are my settings for 4.4GHz on 8 cores running stable, so yes you can OC this board and it is pretty decent at it. If you want to push your chip any harder you're probably looking at the wrong board (I would steer you towards the Asus Crosshair Formula or Asus Sabertooth motherboards)
Now I would like to address some of the negative and less favorable comments/reviews I have read:
1) No IEEE-1394 connectors or headers: The specifications say nothing about IEEE-1394 support but reading the manual there is a statement that trying to plug an IEEE-1394 connector into a USB header will damage the motherboard.
2) No USB 3.0 front panel header: It is in the manual, shows up on the motherboard diagrams and I visibly see it and clearly labeled.
3) Back plate for case does not align with motherboard: I had this same problem but after replacing the six brass standoffs on my case with taller ones everything aligned perfect. This seems like a case issue and not a motherboard issue.
4) No SLI support: The manual does say it only supports CrossoverX, with the crossover cable or via software.
One of the things I like about this motherboard is the Bios Flashback button on the board. I ordered this mother board on a Wednesday and received it on Friday, but no CPU yet. I installed the motherboard in the case, formatted a USB thumb drive to Fat32 (on my laptop), renamed and copied the Bios update file to the thumb drive, plugged the thumb drive into the designated USB port, applied power to the motherboard, pressed the Bios Flashback button and after a few moments the bios was updated – No CPU or memory installed and Bios still updated. So I know if I ever mess up the bios I will be able to easily recover my bios. I also read you can even backup and save your Bios settings for the very purpose of recovery.
The 6 Sata ports are located out of the way and don’t interfere with anything, actually the motherboard is laid out to make it easy to install most peripherals without interfering with anything else. There is one exception, I installed an Radeon HD6670 graphics card in the first PCIe x16 slot and the card does cover one of the PCIe x1 slots.
I originally downloaded the updated drivers and software from Asus but I ended up installing the drivers and software form the included CD then used the Asus EZ update to update the drivers. This was far better way than my first attempt at using the downloaded drivers.
Bottom line, this is an excellent motherboard for the price if not the best in this price range. It supports many of the AMD CPUs including the AMD FX-8120 I ordered for this board. The UEFI bios is extremely easy to navigated and adjust. The included driver and software disk includes very useful software, I like the Ai Suite, it even has an auto tune function to safely overclock the CPU and memory. I highly recommend this motherboard.
The following are the parts I ordered for the build and they all work well together. Keep in mind that the motherboard only comes with 2 Sata III cables.
AMD FX-8120 8-Core Black Edition Processor Socket AM3+ - FD8120FRGUBOX
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 - CPU Cooler with 3 Direct Contact Heat Pipes (RR-910-HTX3-G1)
Cooler Master BladeMaster 92mm PWM High Air Flow Silent Case Fan R4-BM9S-28PK-R0 (second fan for CPU cooler – push pull configuration)
PWM Y Splitter Cable Adapter (for dual CPU fan setup)
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB (2X4 GB) PC3-12800 1600mHz DDR3 240-Pin SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B
Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 1GB DDR3 HDMI/DVI-D/VGA PCI-Express Graphics Card (11192-22-20G)
Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS (CX500)
Normally such stuff costs $$$ to buy the app and in most cases subscribe to it, not with this feature, all this is free and built into the mobo. As for why I took off a star? the AHCI features, which is the successor to IDE. Sometimes the PC will blue screen and restart and give a error loading your HDD, and this seems traced by solely to AHCI features. Even switching back to IDE in the bios does not seem to work and only powering off your PC completely, and in some cases turning the switch on the power back off and on seems to fix it. However, I am strongly leaning to the problem being I did not reformat my PC and reinstall windows fully into UEFI as the Hard disks themselves, both SATA work perfectly fine when tried in other systems. Will update this when i solve this issue.
So let that be my only warning about this to potential buyers, if you use Windows 8 you may run into issues with the Hard Drive stuff.
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Recomendado si planeas usar un 8350 para una pc barata pero con rendimiento de una alta.
6 sata 6gbps, 2 usb 3.0 on back side, and no front panel usb 3.0