Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AMD 970 AM3+ ATX Motherboard

The 970A-UD3 motherboard is designed to offer a stable, high-speed platform for delivering amazingly fast data transfer via the GIGABYTE 333 onboard acceleration technologies. Featuring the USB3.0 controller, AMD 900 series motherboards allow users to take advantage of super fast USB transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, delivering 10x faster data transfer compared to USB 2.0. Utilizing the industry's first Serial ATA Revision 3.0 solution via AMD SB950 chipset, GIGABYTE AMD 900 series motherboards offer native 6 ports of next generation high speed data storage devices support with data transfer speeds of up to 6 Gbps with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10. The AMD 900 series motherboards introduce a unique hardware design with lower resistance fuses for ensuring lower voltage drops and providing more stable and plentiful power delivery. All USB ports also benefit from a 3x power boost for better power delivery to power hungry USB devices.

• On/Off Charge Technology

• Get Ready for New Generation of 32nm AMD AM3+ CPU

• Supports next generation of 45nm AMD AM3 CPU

• SATA 6 Gbps Support

• USB 3.0 Support

• Dual Channel DDR3 2000+ MHz

CPU AM3+ Socket:

Support for AMD AM3+ FX processors

Support for AMD AM3 Phenom™ II processors / AMD Athlon™ II processors

(Please refer "CPU Support List" for more information.)

Hyper Transport Bus

4800 MT/s

Chipset

North Bridge: AMD 970

South Bridge: AMD SB950

Memory

4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory (Note 1)

Dual channel memory architecture

Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules (Note 2)

(Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)

Audio

Realtek ALC889 codec

High Definition Audio

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN

1 x Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)

3 x PCI Express x1 slots

(All PCI Express slots conform to the PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

2 x PCI slots

Multi-Graphics Technology

Support for AMD CrossFireX™ technology (PCIEX16 and PCIEX4)

Storage Interface South Bridge:

6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices

Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID5, RAID 10 and JBOD

USB South Bridge:

Up to 14 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (8 ports on the back panel, 6 ports available through the internal USB headers)

2 x Etron EJ168 chips:

Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)

IEEE 1394 VIA VT6308 chip:

Up to 2 IEEE 1394a ports (1 port on the back panel, 1 port available through the internal IEEE 1394a header)

Internal I/O Connectors

1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector

6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

1 x CPU fan header

2 x system fan headers

1 x power fan header

1 x front panel header

1 x front panel audio header

1 x S/PDIF Out header

3 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

1 x USB 3.0/2.0 header

1 x IEEE 1394a header

1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header

1 x serial port header

1 x clearing CMOS jumper

Back Panel Connectors

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port

1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

1 x IEEE 1394 port

8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports

1 x RJ-45 port

6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line In/Line Out/Microphone)

I/O Controller

ITE IT8720 chip

H/W Monitoring

System voltage detection

CPU/System temperature detection

CPU/System/Power fan speed detection

CPU overheating warning

CPU/System/Power fan fail warning

CPU/System fan speed control (Note 3)

BIOS

2 x 32 Mbit flash

Use of licensed AWARD BIOS

Support for DualBIOS™

PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b

Unique Features

Support for @BIOS

Support for Q-Flash

Support for Xpress BIOS Rescue

Support for Download Center

Support for Xpress Install

Support for Xpress Recovery2

Support for EasyTune (Note 4)

Support for Easy Energy Saver

Support for Smart Recovery

Support for Auto Green

Support for ON/OFF Charge

Support for Cloud OC

Support for 3TB+ Unlock

Support for Q-Share

Bundle Software

Norton Internet Security (OEM version)

Operating System

Support for Microsoft Windows 7/ Vista/ XP

Form Factor

ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm