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Nathaniel H.

Nathaniel H.

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Good board

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Works great. Needed a full size ATX board for a personal home server build. Handles my 8-core AMD FX-8320 really well. Great layout. logically placed connections. Thought was put into it's design. Excellent system UI! great price

Cons: -Ram installs to a section of the board not completely supported underneath... this bothers me when installing RAM -- I'd rather not bend the board! I guess I could blame the case, so not knocking an egg for that. -Knocked off an egg for one of the SATA port connectors falling off... I stuck it back on there... but its really loose, so it will be the last SATA port I (attempt) to use.

Overall Review: I'm using this for a personal ESXi 6 server. I want to eventually have up to 5 VMs running on this thing, simultaneously. My build included: -AMD FX-8320 Vishera 8-Core 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W FD8320FRHKBOX: N82E16819113285 -Cooler Master Seidon 120V - Compact CPU Liquid Water Cooling System with 120mm Radiator and Fan: N82E16835103195 -Cooler Master HAF XB EVO - High Air Flow Test Bench and LAN Box Desktop Computer Case - ATX: N82E16811119265 -APEVIA ATX-AQ700W-BK 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI CrossFire Power Supply: N82E16817148040 -SAMSUNG DVD Writer SATA Model SH-224FB/RSBS: N82E16827151281 -ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS: N82E16813131873 -CORSAIR Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMY16GX3M2A1866C9R: N82E16820233536 -Silicon Power S60 3K P/E Cycle Toggle MLC 2.5" 120GB 7mm SATA III 6Gb/s Internal SSD: 0D9-0021-00005 -Old Intel Pro duel port PCIe x4 network card -Old PCIx x16 video card

10/16/2015

no problems reported

Team Group CX2 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253X6001T0C101
Team Group CX2 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253X6001T0C101

Pros: it works

Cons: none that I am aware of

Overall Review: good buy

10/31/2023

Great product for a great price.

Athena Power BP-15287SAC an 1 x 5.25" External Drive Bay to 8 x 2.5" SSD / HDD Hot-Swap SAS / SATA Backplane Module - Transfer Rate Up to 6 Gbps SAS (I, II) / SATA (I, II, III) - Drive Thickness Up to 7mm - OEM
Athena Power BP-15287SAC an 1 x 5.25" External Drive Bay to 8 x 2.5" SSD / HDD Hot-Swap SAS / SATA Backplane Module - Transfer Rate Up to 6 Gbps SAS (I, II) / SATA (I, II, III) - Drive Thickness Up to 7mm - OEM

Pros: it does exactly what it says it does... and NO ISSUE

Overall Review: Have a multipurpose server serving vms for multiple functions - I ended up using up all the 2.5" and 3.5" slots with 2.5" drives... I managed to get about 8 in there using other hardware... but now, this one 5.25" bay handles all the SSDs. More room to grow!

Used for my Media Server

WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX

Pros: Still cranking !

Cons: Never had a problem with it.

Overall Review: IT gets a lot of high usage in my Media Server.