Hello, I thought I'd share my experience with the Gigabyte 970A-DS3P FX motherboard, which I've been using for approximately ten years. It continues to work reliably with Debian 13 (Trixie).
Here are the details of my current configuration. Motherboard and system: - Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P FX - BIOS: American Megatrends F1, dated July 13, 2017 - Processor: AMD FX-8370, 8 cores (Piledriver) - Memory: 32 GiB DDR3 (4 × 8 GiB G.Skill F3-2133C10-8G) - Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (Trixie) - Kernel: 6.12.113+deb13-amd64 - Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.3.6, X11 Graphics: - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (PNY) - NVIDIA proprietary driver 550.163.01 - Two 2560×1440 monitors, both running at 120 Hz - Hardware-accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan working Networking: - Realtek RTL8111/8168 Gigabit Ethernet (10ec:8168) - Kernel driver: r8169 Audio: - Onboard AMD SBx00 Azalia (1002:4383), using snd_hda_intel - NVIDIA HDMI/DisplayPort audio, using snd_hda_intel - USB headset: Rosewill NEBULA GX60 - Identified by Linux as JMTek USB PnP Audio Device (0c76:1617) - Kernel driver: snd-usb-audio - Headphones and microphone work under Debian - PipeWire 1.4.2 USB webcam: - Logitech C920 PRO HD (046d:08e5) - Kernel drivers: uvcvideo and snd-usb-audio Gaming and streaming: - ARK: Survival Evolved (ASE) runs well on this system under Debian, despite the age of the FX-8370 processor. - The NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER provides playable game performance. - OBS Studio 30.2.3 supports NVIDIA NVENC hardware video encoding. - I've successfully streamed at 1920×1080, 30 FPS using NVENC without overloading the GPU. - Streaming at 60 FPS can overload the GPU, so 1080p/30 FPS is a more reliable configuration. - I've also shared ASE gameplay through Jitsi Meet in Firefox, with reasonably good video quality. The motherboard's onboard Ethernet and audio work with standard Linux kernel drivers. My USB headset and webcam also work under Debian. I've had good reliability with this motherboard over the years, and Debian 13 continues to run well on it. I'm sharing this in case the information is useful to anyone considering Debian on older AM3+ hardware. Regards
