Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0

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Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 Review

An excellent entry-level motherboard for AM3+ systems. Packs a lot of good features such as BIOS Flashback which allows you to update the BIOS with only the motherboard, power supply and a BIOS file on a thumb drive. It has UEFI BIOS which is also a nice feature.

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Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 Technical Specifications

	Motherboard Details
CPU Make	AMD
Chipset	AMD 970/SB950
Form Factor	ATX
CPU socket	Socket AM3+
Total RAM	32GB
Total USB	14 USB slots

	Motherboard Graphics
GPU Interface	PCIe v2.x
GPU Onboard	No
SLI	2 Nvidia SLI GPUs
Crossfire	2 AMD/ATI Crossfire GPUs
Expansion Slots	2x 2 x PCIe x1 1 x PCIe x4 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16

	Motherboard Memory
Memory Type	4xDDR3
Memory Type(ECC)	Non-ECC
Memory Channel	Dual
Memory Capacity	32GB DDR3
Memory Total	32GB
Memory Slots	4xDIMM
Memory Speed	DDR3 1066Mhz DDR3 1333Mhz DDR3 1600Mhz DDR3 1866Mhz DDR3 2133Mhz

	Motherboard SATA
SATA 1	No
SATA 2	No
SATA 3	6 x SATA 3
SATA Speed	6Gb/s
External SATA	2
RAID	Yes

	Internal I/O Connectors
Internal USB	6 x USB 2.0 2 x USB 3.0
Internal I/O	1 x 24 pin power connector 1 x 8 pin power connector 3 x 4 pin fan header 1 x CPU fan header Audio connector SPDIF Out connector System panel connector TPM Chip

	Back Panel Connectors
Back Panel USB	4 x USB 2.0 2 x USB 3.0
Back Panel I/O	Line In connector Mic Out connector 7.1 Surround Sound Audio Input Output PS/2 connector 1 x Firewire connector