You have to do what your money will let you do...
...but there is little we can do if you want to try and overclock SO cheap of a motherboard. Might run stock. Maybe.
1. >Cons: Heat sinks are not sturdy on t bridges, came in DoA, Seemed flimsy
2. >Cons: Dead on Arrival. No built in display adapter, video card only. This actually matters if things go wrong.
Other Thoughts: If an item is DOA it gets 1 star. If DOA is rare then it's rating won't suffer much. Looking through the other reviews it seems that this is a shoddy product. Be prepared to return and/or deal with warranties and/or just part with your money.
3. >Cons: I bought it as an upgrade in preparation for the new school year. Worked fine until today, where I plugged in a flash drive, and it died on me. I'm beyond angry, and in such a stressful situation now because of this.
4. >Cons: Put all of my computer together and then tried to turn it on and then nothing happens except my front fan led's come on and then go off in a split second. There is no beeps, sound, or nothing. No display on the monitor. There is no physical damage that i can see, so it has to be a defect or something else. So i'm sending it back, if any can give some advice it would be nice of you. Thanks Gigabyte
Other Thoughts: Don't buy this piece of juck, look at the ratings, ALWAYS
5. >Cons: Was DOA. Spent the day putting together my computer only to find out something wasn't working, tried a backup graphics card and RAM to make sure that wasnt the problem, I knew it was either my CPU (which is quite rare), or my motherboard. I ended up getting a full refund from newegg thankfully as they have fantastic customer service, and purchased another Gigabyte MoBo (990 chipset) which was much more sturdy and had more room for expansion. It was $50 more but IMO it was plenty worth it, I was wrong to cheap out on my motherboard to begin with.
Other Thoughts: I am not saying this product is bad, I just didn't get the chance to use mine so I cannot give this a good review.
That is five (5) pretty bad cons (against) against the GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P and that is five not so happy customers out of the first 10 reviewers at NewEgg. I did not go thru the next 10 customer reviewers.
Sale site in the UK. 9 customer reviews.
1. > Anyway on the whole this is a great motherboard the UEFI dual bios its full of features,
in hindsight I would of spent the extra 20-30 on the UD3P model which seems to be similar but a higher spec.
ONE THING this board ISNT TOO GOOD for OCing your CPU altho I have my 8GB of Corsair 1600 LP black set at 1866MHZ (Max speed CPU can support) and everything is fine and also my GPU OCed.
Just CPU wise its not really an OCing board.
2. > I bought this board after plumping for a an FX-8320K CPU and was very disappointed. It has all the options to overclock in the bios, but
not the juice to carry it off at a reasonably stable rate, even at slight OC's.
3. > Nothing too special but for the price it works brilliantly and should overclock a little but don't expect huge overclocks from it, the bios is a little outdated but it has a lot of features and plenty of internal and external IO.
If you are on a budget or you are not looking to overclock a lot this is perfect board and it also looks good.
Five out of the first 10 customer reviews at NewEgg in Usa say it is not good for their money.
Three out of 9 customers that reviewed on etailer site in the Uk say it is surely not for overclocking.
So you buy too cheap a mobo, there is little to NO overclock going to happen and nothing we can help you with about an overclock since it might damage the board in the long run and even fail and take out ram or cpu or some other part with it. Get it only if you cannot buy a better board which you should get if you plan on doing any overclock at all.
RGone...
