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Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 970/SB950, 4x DDR3, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI-Express 2.0, USB 3.0, USB BIOS Flashback, Windows 8 Ready, Socket AM3+)

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  • Dual Intelligent Processors - TPU+EPU
  • Remote GO! - One-stop PC Remote Control and Home Entertainment
  • Network iControl - Real-time Network Bandwidth Control
  • DirectKey - A Dedicated Button to Access the BIOS Directly
  • USB BIOS Flashback
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Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 970/SB950, 4x DDR3, S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI-Express 2.0, USB 3.0, USB BIOS Flashback, Windows 8 Ready, Socket AM3+) + AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed)
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Technical Details
BrandASUS
Item Weight1.4 Kg
Product Dimensions26.3 x 5.3 x 32.8 cm
Item model numberM5A97 R2.0
RAM Size32768 MB
Computer Memory TypeDDR3 SDRAM
Number of USB 2.0 Ports3
Lithium Battery Weight5 grams
Number of Lithium Metal Cells1
  
Additional Information
ASINB008V9959O
Best Sellers Rank 4,132 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight1.6 Kg
Date First Available4 Sep 2012
  
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Product Description

ASUS continues to put innovation at its forefront, launching the world’s first Dual Intelligent Processors technology. This exclusive design consists of the EPU (Energy Processing Unit), which automatically monitors power consumption system-wide to ensure efficiency, and the TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) - guaranteeing superior performance for every task, bringing users an unbeatable experience.

Unleash your performance with ASUS' AI Suite II utility. The TPU chip offers precise voltage control and advanced monitoring through Auto Tuning and TurboV functions. Auto Tuning offers a user friendly way to automatically optimize the system for fast, yet stable clock speeds, while TurboV enables unlimited freedom to adjust CPU frequencies and ratios for optimized performance in diverse situations.

Tap into the world's first real-time PC power saving chip through AI Suite II utility. Get total system-wide energy optimization by automatically detecting current PC loadings and intelligently moderating power consumption. This also reduces fan noise and extends component longevity!

Remote GO! links PCs, tablets, smartphones and TVs wirelessly together through an existing LAN cable and router setup. It allows users to stream multimedia content from PC to DLNA devices, access their computer anywhere using their mobile device at home, while also allowing easy file transfers between your computer and mobile device. It provides seamless environment for a futuristic connected lifestyle with three useful functions: DLNA Media Hub, Remote Desktop and File Transfer.

USB BIOS Flashback offers the most convenient way to flash the BIOS ever! It allows overclockers to try new UEFI BIOS versions easily, without even entering their existing BIOS or operating system. It even works without key components such as the CPU and memory installed. Just plug in any USB storage and push the dedicated button for 3 seconds. The UEFI BIOS is automatically flashed using ATX standby power. Worry-free updating for the ultimate convenience!

With a single-click on/off button, the application currently in use has its data and network bandwidth prioritized over other programs. Moreover, you can prioritize your favorite software easily by configuring profiles through the intuitive user interface. Within the profile, programs can be pre-scheduled to run in a specific time period to avoid network congestion and long-waits on downloads. Auto PPPoE network connection provides a one-step setup for enhanced online convenience. Overall, it's an intuitive network bandwidth control center.

Box Contains

Motherboard
2 x S-ATA 6Gb/s cables
Backplate
Manual
Support Disk

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Joshua on 26 Feb 2013
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This motherboard is pretty good! I bought it primarily because it was the only one I could get on next day delivery, which would support both my crossfire graphics cards, and the new AMD 8350 Vishera CPU I bought with it. There were a few more things considered, e.g the fact that I may want to have a lot of hard drives at some point (I do a lot of movie editing, so yeah, storage needed), and the fact that I might want external hard drives running on USB3. This having a few PCI-e x1 slots is useful, as is the crossfire support. My other condition is that it needed to have 4 RAM slots, again due to the nature of what I do I need to basically throw power at the computer to get results and work out of it.

My only complaint is that the panel supplied is about 1mm off, though this could be my case, I suspect it's just me being incredibly fussy.

Definitely worth the extra £30 or so over the basic models, and highly recommended to anyone looking to get a power station set up.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful By Jaz on 19 Nov 2012
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This motherboard is fantastic. Plenty of external ports. There's more than enough USB ports provided.

The manual is brilliant and extremely useful. While building my PC, I was reading the manual the whole time. It goes above and beyond what you should believe required from a motherboard manual. Not only does it explain where everything is, there's an entire section on actually connecting each of your components. There's some stuff that barely even relates to the motherboard except for connecting a wire. But more information is still provided. And believe me, it saved me a lot of time. As a new PC builder(I've never built a PC before), I found the manual extremely extremely useful. It provided so much information I completely ditched my original idea of looking online for instructions. I had never expected a motherboard manual to be this helpful. I'd bookmarked a ton of guides on Dabs. But there is no way in a million years they could compare with the straightforward instructions in this manual. It's simply brilliant.

And of course the motherboard itself is great. There are plenty of ports. There are 6 SATA III ports. I only needed one for the moment. There are two PCI Express ports. Again, only needed one for the moment. And four RAM slots. Again, only needed one for the moment(Though I do slightly regret not buying another DIMM. Would have helped. I only have 4GB at the moment, which I thought would suffice)

And the best thing about this motherboard? The fast boot feature. I did not expect it to work on a non-SSD. But trust me, you do not need an SSD to benefit from this feature. Windows 8 boots in a maximum of 5 or 6 seconds. It never takes longer than that. It's awesome.

I've had no issues so far.

To conclude, this is a fantastic motherboard and a worthy purchase.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful By The Chosen One on 8 Jun 2013
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Good sturdy motherboard

x2 PCI-E for crossfire!

Internal USB 3.0 Header!

Seriously buy this motherboard, its a very high end motherboard for £70!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful By C. O'Connor on 26 Nov 2013
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I have always loved the look of motherboards. I used to think they looked like tiny cities as a kid with motorways and buildings going everywhere, but I never would have said they were beautiful until I got this ASUS. Let's be honest, colour schemes are not your first priority when buying something that is most likely to end up being hidden inside of a box, but when you see this for the first time it is certainly a striking piece of kit.

Now, with that mental wandering out of the way here are my thoughts about this board, hopefully they will help you with your decision as the previous comments helped me.

This is an ATX board, so it's a bit more serious in terms of ability than my previous mini-itx builds, but it's still a motherboard and all of the connections are there and will be similar to you if you have ever built your own pc. A couple of features it does have on the board are:

MemOk! button - Actually forgot to use this before setting up so can't comment on it's usefulness but it it supposed to make incompatible memory work with the board.
Bios directkey - Pressing this will bring you to the Bios if you have had some (mis)adventures in overclocking

I made a mistake when plugging my connectors to the board as the CPU power (12v Non-Atx?) connector near the i/o ports has space for an 8-pin connector, as my PSU had an 8 pin connector lying around I went ahead and plugged it in. Naturally this was incorrect and had me wondering what the hell was going on after nothing happened when I turned it on for the first time. I was so sure that there was nothing wrong with the power connectors that I took everything else apart twice to find the problem.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By smith on 5 Aug 2014
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Some of the gimmicky stuff they have with some of these boards is funny. Get a higher end board if you don't plan on using SLI/Crossfire and need a firewire port. Crossfire will work with this, but the second would be on a *8pci. Otherwise, and if you want even better overclocking capability get an 99X or 99FX chipset version, which have better power to cpu / better north bridge cooling. I can overclock with this board, not really spent much time doing that and probably wont, but just the bios auto overclock takes my 8350 to 4.4.
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