ASUS DDR3 2133 AMD AM3+ Motherboards M5A97 LE R2.0

**** This is a VERY solid board for light gaming. No SLI or Crossfire as the second Express slot is not an x16, but x4. Still, bought this for use with a FX6300 chip 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. But it is used to play a lot of World of Warcraft (legion), Minecraft, Stellaris, and a few other Steam games with no problem. Windows 10 Pro runs excellent, games are good FPS, and it does all I need it for. **** I have only ONE real complaint, but I knew coming in that this has NO USB 3.0 header built on the MB. 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. It's really a minor issue for me though. **** I would NOT recommend this for a "Hard Care" gamer, but it's a solid inexpensive motherboard for the casual gamer or for almost any other use. This is my THIRD ASUS motherboard in the house and they all are very reliable. (I love AMD for the great price/power factor.) I have built several others for friends and family and no one has had any MB issues with the ASUS boards used. **** If you are a budget builder, this is a great option!

Pros: Tons of USB ports Awesome UEFI Bios Easy setup Cheap Cons: None so far (will update if something pops up) I decided to build a new PC and was torn between this and a Gigabyte mobo. I decided on this one because of the Asus name and I couldn't be happier. Everything worked great. The Bios were the easiest I have ever used. It has a full GUI interface with mouse support. The board has plenty of usb ports on the back and plenty of headers on the board for more. It also supports faster charging of iPads and my Nexus 7. I put a six core FX processor on it but it supports up to an eight core AMD FX. If you are on a budget and need a good motherboard with plenty of expandability I highly recommend this board.

Good board for an amazing price; but there are some downfalls. 1- There is only a STEREO AUDIO JACK (If you want 5.1 audio, you will have to purchase a sound card for this board) 2- PCI-E x1 Slot is EXTREMELY close to any graphics card that takes two slots (I purchased an audio card to make up for my mistake, and found that it nearly covers the entire PCI-E x16 graphics card fan) I will be monitoring my temps, but I do have a good Antec Case with 4x 120mm case fans and 1x 140mm case fan.

This was used in my first build and I love it everything is beautiful and easy, I got this for $75 and you just can't beat the price for what you get... plenty of usb's, crossfire!, easy bios, another great product from ASUS. I would recommend this product to anybody thinking of building a pc. -3 years later- Still playing on my phenom x6 with this mobo, its been great and easy to work with, no complaints from me but am3 is dead now but if you can pick it up cheap enough go ahead, I have grown accustomed to the audio suite its very useful for me and over all a very awesome board. Good job Asus.

Bought this for an AMD FX 6300. It has served me well from the moment I first powered it on. BIOS is full-featured and intuitive, and it did not balk at any of my components. Has support for front panel USB 2.0 but not 3.0, so save money and get a case without front panel usb 3.0. The I/O panel is kind of a lame shiny metal with stamped out symbols instead of a nice colored finish, but what do you expect for the price.

I very much liked this motherboard. I build computers for people as a hobby for very low prices. I am using this motherboard as my main. And I completely enjoy the bios on it. One HUGE issue I have is that it doesn't have a usb 3.0 header for the case port. I see the spot where the header is supposed to be. But, it is not there at all. I haven't checked the circuit but, I want to see if it exists. Good motherboard other than that.

im giving it a 1 star simply because at this time 2015 they still have mobos of this kind with the old bios where lets say you buy a fx 6300 like i did and you placed every component in your board correctly like i did where everything is running perfectly i.e. fans, case fans , cpu cooler, graphics card fans. now i write this review because if you buy this motherboard you need to beware that Some AMD 970 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Vishera CPUs. one of these mobos i ordered from here had the old bios where i could not get my cpu to work on that board, i was confused for 4 days, breadboarding the mobo, cleaning the cpu thinking i bent one of the pins or thermalpaste got on the board when i simply didnt have an answer i called asus customer support, which i was greeted with a nice lady and i told her my situation and she said to look for a 4 digit number at the end of the ram holders and i told her the number and she said that i had an old mobo with the old bios in it, so i am returning this mobo and going for a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard that actually works with my fx 6300 out of the box, now if you want to try this mobo its basically playing with your luck because you might end up with a mobos with the older bios or the newer bios and they really need to alert people about this and only you can make this bios work if you had an older 2 core or earlier amd chips where you can access its bios, update it and put in the newer cpus from amd. just be carefull and if you want a good mobos that actually works right out of the box with the fx series cpus , give gigabyte a shot.

I don't know how this board would be for a serious computer geek or gamer, but it works great for my purposes. I decided to upgrade my computer because it had about 4 or 5 years on it and was starting to do a few strange things. Put it in the case with a new hard drive, CPU, memory cards, and OS and it worked right off the bat. The only problem was that I did not read the specs carefully and had to order a video card, since a video output is not provided.

Très bon produit, correspond á mes attentes. Ma panne de pc est maintenant résolu. J'avais commandé un autre modèle, on m'a envoyé une carte plus petite, mais tout va pour le mieux.

Hat viele gute Funktionen

I'm posting this after its all done and tested. Havent overclocked yet, will get to that later. Im a complete novice to this, but the manual by my side and all the connections on the board are labeled, making it really simple. First boot was fine, went straight to setting up bios, I was too trigger happy here and started making minor changes thinking I would be ok. I was wrong, it didnt boot the second time. I went through the manual, they recommend not changing anything from default, I reset the jumper on this board as instructed. 3rd boot everything back to normal, I select the hardrive windows was on and away I go. Everything works out of the box, just do what I do and follow instructions. Replacing the stock motherboard from an HP pc, this wouldnt fit into the HP case even tho its listed as atx. Just keep that in mind as well if your upgrading a prebuilt pc.

no me de di cuenta que esta es la Le no trae para conectar usb frontal pero aun ha si me sirvió perfectamente

excellent, please note this board doesn't comes with onboard graphics. 6 sata 6gbps, 2 usb 3.0 on back side, and no front panel usb 3.0