Posted March 19, 20168 yr Here is a new entry from Gigabyte using the budget oriented AMD 970 chipset. It appears to compete with the very successful MSI 970 gaming motherboard with it's red racer oriented theme. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128898 Here is the link to the board on Gigabyte's site. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5779#ov Here is a nice picture of the board itself_ This would probably be a great solution for an FX 8370/8350/8320, all of which are also coming down in prices recently in the face of Intel's successful Skylake offerings. I have not built with this Gigabyte board but I have built with a few of the MSI 970 gaming boards and this Gigabyte offering should be similar and the MSI board took an FX 8350 just fine even with a small overclock, though I would limit and overclocking on any AMD 970 board and leave that to the AMD 990FX chipsets and just run the processor at stock values on this board. Still though, a nice offering with upgraded Realtek ALC 1150 instead of the older boards with ALC 892 that should negate the need for a separate sound card for most gamers and music listeners.
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