I bought this for a new gaming build. It's got everything I need as I don't believe you need to spend £60+ on a Mobo for good gaming. I coupled it with 8gb G-Skill RAM, OCZ 60gb SSD, already had 2x2tb Samsung HDD that were really easy to setup in raid 1+0 and a 6950 2gb (bios flashed to 6970) - I pull 110+fps on SWTOR.
The processor I used was the AMD Black Phenom II X4 960T. This mobo straight out of the box unlocked it to 6 cores and the on board overclocking options are fantastic. I unlocked 6 cores and overclocked to 3.5ghz making sure turboboost was turned OFF. Coupled with the hardware above, 7.8 windows index score, barely breaks a sweat (using a custom VenomX CPU cooler and custom IceCool GPU cooler). Would even let me OC my GPU out of the box.
However, after a days, certain games would crash, giving me a graphics error, was well as random desktop crashes and I also noticed that my RAM was in single channel, not dual channel mode. I tweaked a few settings to get my ram working correctly, but still experienced crashes. After an operating system reinstall and various different driver setups, I Flashed the BIOS to the latest version from the website (you can use the desktop utility to do this) and after I used the same OC settings and did another fresh install straight after the BIOS flash, Im having 0 problems.
Upgrade the BIOS straight away then perform another fresh install is the advice I will give. Great board at a great price, but takes a little bit of know how to get it and the hardware plugged into it working at full capability.
