Works fantastic with my setup. I love everything about it except the lack of Sata3. I bought it because it was cheap at the time and the value was incredible and since I didn't at the time have a SSD, I wasn't too concerned about the lack of sata3. Now that I am upgrading to a SSD, I will simply buy an expansion card that has internal SATA3 ports and connect my new SSD to that.
Besides that everything works great. Plenty of ports for anything you need. Had integrated video if needed, but also has a port for a single graphics card. Plenty of sata2 ports, 2 classic PCI ports, USB headers to connect USB to your front panel, and even a PS/2 port in case you want to use an old keyboard or mouse. Also, the BIOS is already updated to the latest and it is very user friendly.
It was super easy to hook up. All of the cables leading to the front panel are clearly marked and easy to hook up. The only thing I would change about it is there isn't much room between the CPU and the RAM slots. My CPU's heatsink was kind of big (the stock one) so it made it hard to hook up ram to the first slot. I changed the heatsink though, which was admittedly pretty large, and now all of the ram slots are easily accessible. I don't know if this would be an issue for any other CPU heatsinks since I'm not familiar with most others, but something to consider.
Overall I am extremely happy with my purchase since it was the cheapest motherboard I could find that was AM3+, USB3, had PCIx16x, and has 4 ram slots to upgrade the ram to 32GB. The only thing I would have wanted is the Sata3, but I am easily fixing that with a PCI card for about $12 dollars.
| Standing screen display size | 21 Inches |
|---|---|
| RAM | 8 GB DDR3 2000 |
| Memory Speed | 1333 MHz |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 10 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
