This is a great budget board. It has a USB 3.0 header, is basically as cheap as AM3+ motherboards come, and it looks half decent. I don't know if the durability claim is bogus or not yet, but so far so good.
I ran an FX-8320 in this just fine at stock speeds. When trying to overclock it could not handle it at all. It was unstable and made some very unsettling high pitched squeals. I don't think it damaged anything, I just think there is probably a mosfet or other similar on board device that isn't properly attached. I had a mosfet lose on a motherboard many years ago that made the same sound only 4x worse and basically all of the time. A little super glue fixed it right up, but it is a testament to the (lack of) build qualify of the board.
Also, the heat sinks for the voltage regulators and northbridge/southbridge all seem to be very loose and when you press on them slightly you can feel them easily rock back and forth. The thermal contact can't be that great if they just loosely sit there.
The interface for the BIOS is pretty decent, and I haven't had any major problems out of the board so far. I would think this would be very well suited for something like an HTPC or a budget PC that you aren't planning on overclocking.
If you're planning on overclocking, especially if you're hoping to get all you can out of your chip, I can not recommend this board at all. With no other changes, just a motherboard change, I was able to get at least twice the overclock out of my processor. I also am quite sure with my new motherboard the CPU is getting much cleaner voltage and therefore I don't worry about it dying due to dirty voltage like I would have if I continued using this mobo.
Having said all of that, I don't expect great overclockability out of a budget board. If you aren't doing water cooling though, I would suggest investing more in a faster processor and getting a board like this as opposed to spending $150 more on a motherboard that will let you overclock your processor to the frequency of a processor that costs only $50 more. For me, I was doing water cooling, and I was able to get an every day overclock of 4.75ghz and a max OC of 4.9ghz. With this board I was only able to OC to about 4.1ghz and I'm not sure how stable that was as I didn't stress test it (4.2ghz was definitely not stable).
My new board is an asus sabertooth 990fx. I use this for my wife's PC now which is running a 6 core FX-6100. It overclocks moderately just fine but this processor generates less heat and is on air. I temporarily ran the same proc in my other board (and had my water block on it) and it easily overclocked twice as well as this board. This is not a fair comparison, but with my experience I would say this board will restrict you a good bit if you're interested in overclocking.
I still think this is a killer AM3+ board that can handle the fx8320 at stock speeds just fine (some other budget AM3+ boards really can't). It also has a USB 3.0 header on the motherboard, which is rare for the budget class. I'm very happy with this motherboard just hope it stops screaming at me and I'll certainly be upset if it ends up dying (I have bad luck with motherboards, don't know why - and often times without overclocking so no that's not why lol)
| Processor | athlon |
|---|---|
| RAM | 32 GB DDR3 1800 |
| Memory Speed | 1333 MHz |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 8 |
