Asrock 970M Pro3 Micro ATX Socket AM3+ AMD 970 Motherboard

On first look this is a good motherboard. It has all the things I do want on it and none of the things I didn't. You've got to expect some compromises because it's a Micro ATX board, so room for instance is not at a premium. For instance the space between my graphics card and my SSD card in the other PCIE slot is very small so I may have to watch this and attend to it in the future, probably by getting a couple of fans to blow straight at the GPU. However, the fact that I can fit both and it boots up quite quickly already and I haven't enabled fast boot yet is a bonus when compared to the other Micro ATX boards I was looking at. Also a plus are the 6 SATA3 ports rated at 6Gb/s. The USB 3 header is in a unconventional place lets say so that can present problems but the cable in my case was plenty long enough so this wasn't an issue for me. All in all at the moment I'm pretty pleased with it. If that changes I will update.

2 months in and running well. Good simple overclocking features, wel layed out, well designed, black finish looks good with my pc mod. Would recommend so far. Amazing for the price I paid in fact. Nice styled bios, easy to navigate and understand, plenty of utility software if wanted that does make good improvemtns to benchmarking including xfast ram, xfast ethernet and xfast usb. Surprisingly high speed gains using these. Plus x boost feature is nice when booting up (their one click overclocking feature)

This little board is well made and packs in a lot of connectivity and works perfectly with windows 10 and it's problomatic new way of handling sound. Developed bios stability issues requarding usb and the bios locking up, so had to update to the latest bios from asrock.

This is a fantastic motherboard. Especially if you’re still using DDR3 memory and an AM+ CPU socket. I bought mine as a direct replacement for my 970 R2 and this one is even better. It’s literally plug and play and you’re off. I’ve been running this motherboard with Windows 10 for years now, with absolutely no issues.

Great, has given my AMD build a new lease of life (Prodigy M case, R7 260x GPU, 1045T CPU). Noticeably quicker for having SATA3 (with an SSD) and no more 'A hyper sync transport flood error occurred' messages, as I used to get with my old MSI board.

Decent product with nice graphical bios but this is unstable with FX 8 core processors. Be sure to buy with caution.

Took the gamble on building a cheap amd gaming system. Paired this with FX8320e chip overclocked to 4.2Ghz and NVidia 770. I usually build intel systems, but after testing this I cannot grumble. Great performance for much less money.

The VRM's are not adequate, this motherboard turns the whole PC into a very good electric heater. It even manages to heat up the exterior of the case on the motherboard side to very hot to touch temperatures.

***Ojo la tarjeta no trae video integrado*** Excelente tarjeta para que puedas reusar componentes de tu PC viejita. Yo le instalé un procesador AMD FX de Ocho núcleos, 32 gigas de RAM y una tarjeta gráfica DDR5. Además le instalé Windows 10 Pro. Quedo muy bien.

Nachdem vorher ein ASUS-Board in Verbindung mit meinem FX-8350 und einer NVIDIA Quadro 2000 gerne mal abschmierte (mit einem Phenom II 1090T war das noch kein Problem), legte ich mir dieses Board zu. Bisher waren keine Abstürze festzustellen; ich führe dies u.a. auf die vorhandenen 8-Pin-Stromversorgung des Prozessors zurück. Die vorhandenen Anschlüsse sind reichhaltig und genügen vollends.

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This board replaced a MSi 890 micro with an IGP. The 970M's processor is in the EXACT same place, so my cpu heat sink lined up with the top case opening. I use a 3 hard drive switch in a rear PCI slot to power off the OS I am not using. Now I can dual boot 7 and 10 without any blue screen. This board supports OS are XP to Win10 and Linux. It might even work for a cash register. I can OC this board, and it runs cool, with no locks or blue screens. But OC caused the BIOs to get flakey over time. After a year and a half and several BIOs resets. I went back to the Optimized defaults, for Windows 7 and 10. I left C6, and Cool and Quiet enabled. I used default/auto for most everything else. My particular DIMMS did need manual settings 9-9-9-24-39 though. I left C1E off. Since doing so, the 970M delivers ROCK STABLE operation. Day in, day out! My 8320E beginning clock is 3.2 and Turbo to 3.5, so the default clocks have enough power for light gaming and editing tools. Idle temps for core, VRM and NB less than 40C. Full load, less than 55C. I use process Lasso to switch power schemes by Idlesaver feature. The CPU and Sys Fans can be controlled by Speedfan, but you must dilly dally with the advance tab in the config of Speedfan to make it work. If you OC and it cracks up the BIOs, it can look like hardware failed. Don't panic. Do Reset CMOS. (unplug, remove battery, push power button several times, then move jumper right then back left). It may need patience, sometimes stalls after f10, push any button. It may even need F8 to get back to desktop, but once it does, it and Windows are rock stable again. I reused a Windows install, and the 10MB LAN software that you unzip on a flash drive was useful. You can go to bios and install it, so your LAN is connected for Windows Update help GPU software. I put ASRock all in one drivers on flash drive, GPU Disc in optical drive and my system hobbled to the desktop and straightened itself out after a couple of reboots. The chipset software installed itself but I had to start GPU setup. I used Autoruns to clean up old drivers.

Fonctionne parfaitement avec Windows 7. Carte mère elle-même fonctionne très bien, mais les instructions sont pauvres. Si vous êtes un novice ou que vous mettez à jour votre ancien ordinateur, il n'y a rien sur la configuration du BIOS ou la résolution de problèmes. Excellent prix et bien emballé.