Gigabyte 970A-D3 AMD970 ATX AM3+ DDR3 2PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 2PCI RAID SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard

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Use Gigabyte for a lot of builds, have found them really stable and have had no problems. This board was for my own upgrade to the 8350 cpu, running great and looking forward to trying ot the OC tools.

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i really happy to this board, it support the fx-8320 right out of the box you dont need to update  the bios. its been running for 3 weeks so far works perfectly.

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Can't be happier! Got this board with a Phenom II X4 processor and it works perfectly.Nothing bad to say, it's been running for 3 months without a single problem.

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First build I have done with a Gigabyte motherboard. No problems at all. Great list of features for a board in this price range, especially the USB3, SATA3 and AM3+.

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Great board; I would however avoid it at this price range, as it has been at the 80 dollar mark before without a rebate.

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Initially had bsod, thought it was mobo but turns out it was the corsair RAMs. Changed the RAMs and have been liking it since.

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Gigabyte makes good mother board. It has all the functions you need, but quality just normal.

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Got this as a bundle deal with a processor, it was a great deal and it works very well. ATX motherboard fit properly in my case and the USB 3.0 ports are a very nice touch.

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I am having several issues with this board:1. I bought DDR3 1600 mhz ram for this and when installed the bios clocked it at 1066mhz. The only way I could fix this is by overclocking the ram.2. Will not boot when all devices are in AHCI mode. Installing the driver made no difference. This issue forced me to reinstall Windows 3 times. 3. BSOD - only happened once so far. The error was for hardware or driver malfunction, and I have installed all up to date drivers. I would not buy this board again.

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Good mobo, until it wouldn't boot.

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First and foremost there's a really weird issue with this board. If you enable AHCI after the initial POST screen you see a list of detected drives. The problem is this list often comes up before your USB controller initializes and you miss your chance to "Press DEL to enter setup" unless you have a PS/2 keyboard. Immensely frustrating.Another concern is I'm not sure how well attached the North Bridge heatsink is. It seems to have a bit of lift. I haven't had any problems, but it's nervewracking.Beyond those concerns, this is an affordable, very competent board, its narrow which means it might miss a few standoffs, but still stable, and it means you have more room to work around it in your case. Annoyingly, the CPU Power input is in the top left corner, which is quite a stretch for bottom mounted PSUs like I have, and I'd imagine just an awkward angle for top mounted ones. The overclocking features in bios are diverse, everything is available for you to tweak,and with their tuning solution you can change your HT clock (wrongly named FSB) from Windows. You also apparently can change voltage but it misreported my initial vcore so I didn't want to risk tweaking something that was either potentially polling wrong or changing a different voltage than I had anticipated.I know I come off a bit negative, but it's a working functional motherboard. All the ports work, you get what you see, I just thought I'd be remiss if I didn't address some potential shortcomings that aren't immediately obvious.This is my first Gigabyte board, after spending 11 years with ASUS boards, and I'm glad to see that there is no obvious cut-down on quality outside of the heatsink weirdness

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I was looking for a quality replacement AM3 motherboard, and this one sure meets my expectations. Having USB3 and SATA3, as well as being a bit futureproof (AM3+)are what I was looking for. Currently I have an Athlon II X4 640 3GHz installed, with 16GB RAM and a Radeon 4650, and the system rocks for everything I need it to do.

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I bought this new motherboard for under $100 and it's been awesome to me so far. Lots of USB ports and all, if you doesn't want to Crossfire or SLI, that's an awesome board for the price. Got my Phenom II X4 955 at 3.8GHz with no voltage adjustment and stock heatsink to be rock stable at that speed.