http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
I would read the NewEgg user reviews very carefully. There are more than one user that
says they have trouble when overclocked with straight up booting without strangeness
or double booting.
It appears that the "P" as in GA-970-UD3P board is the replacement for the same board in the non-"P" version and is on Rev 1.0 at this time.
The original non"P" board was fairly good. Until they went to Rev 3.0 and then it was a horror to so many. Then Giga came with the UD3 in Rev 4.0 and it was again fairly good according to some.
I would be very cautious if I were going to throw away most of your original OEM non-overclockable setup and purchase new pieces with the express thought to overclock. By the time you get a decent case and fans for it and a decent cpu cooler to try and get P95 Blend stable at roughly 4.5Ghz you will have more than just a cursory amount of money invested. I know that if you get an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, that it will not be a motherboard holding your overclock back. It will be cooling or just a dud cpu.
I do have an Asus CHV board and it will overclock and run P95 Blend stable at 5.2Ghz but
it will because of the money I have invested in my water cooling setup. I would not have
any lesser board for me. However if you had a lesser overclock in mind there are other
options for a little less money, but I still fear that Giga board; just too new and no actual
track record that we can verify. This is honestly the best that most of us that have helped
here since the release of the FX processors can say with pretty much 99% assurance.
RGone...