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

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)

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.

This little board is well made and packs in a lot of connectivity and works perfectlywith 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 updateto 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.

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

Good mATX motherboard and works as expected, seems to be good quality and all working well, and speedy delivery as usual with Prime. Couldn't fault it.

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.

I bought this motherboard because it said it offered the features I needed to support an 8 core cpu and four sticks of 1866 ram.It cannot do this well - DO NOT BUY FOR 8 CORE CPU.The 4+1 phase vrm is inadequate for the 8 core cpu. This will cause lots of heat to radiate of the board, great instability and throttling.I also have problems booting with four sticks of 1866 MHz ram. The first time I used four it worked great. Then when I tried to reboot I was not even able to boot into the bios. I researched the problem and found out that other users were having a similar problem. It works well with two sticks but not four. This meant I had to downclock the RAM from 1866 to 1600 MHz.I have decided to get a new motherboard with proper 8 core support as I do not want to damage any hardware by using this motherboard which is inadequate for my needs.However this motherboard would be great for a budget build using an amd 4300 cpu and two stick of DDR3.