Pros: 990FX Chipset
# of PCIe Slots
Orientation of SATA ports
USB 3.0 native
AM3+ support
Fixed AHCI on AMD's new 900 series SB
Plays well with a junk PSU
Instruction Manual wasn't in broken or incoherent English
New-fangled BIOS with mouse support

Cons: Stigma that ASRock is a lower-end rebrand of ASUS boards.
# of Power Phases

Overall Review: Using it to power a 720 BE. Cores unlocked just the same as my old board, a GA-MA790x-UD4P. Seems to be a bit more stable, but could just be psycological. ACHI is pretty nice, now that I can actually use it. Plays well with a somewhat underpowered PSU, as it allows for voltage monitoring/clock reduction. I'd rather have my CPU dip in voltage and clock ~500 MHz (down from the 3.5GHz OC), than freeze up entirely due to a shoddy PSU. Nice innovation

I'm turning 75 this year and I hope this is my last build, apart from maybe throwing in an AM3+ CPU in the future. AMD has a nice system going to support so many chips on one board. I tried my old 6400+ BE in it and that worked too! Maybe throw in a 8150 FX or similar after prices drop, but I'd like to see if Piledriver will have a revision that will fit in this socket too!

Pros: FX ready, faster ram, 2-16x pcie.

Cons: None as of yet.

Overall Review: Installed in my case today. Dropped in FX-4100 (w/Arctic Silver 5 and coolermaster TX3 from old AM3 Gigabyte MB), 2x4 Gskill sniper 1866 (from old AM3 Gigabyte MB). 2 Sapphire 5830's (These will be my bottleneck), but MW2 and MOH looks wonderful. Pushed the on button and it fired up perfectly. Updated the bios, then installed drivers. No re-installation of OS (Windows 7 64bit). Did have to validate OS again because of the hardware changes.

Pros: This is a second review to this board as I have had quite some time to use the functions. I paired this with an FX-8120 - 125w. At stock settings, I have no problems whatsoever with this board. Its stable, efficient for the most part, and has excellent features... unless your overclocking....

Cons: The problem I have run into with this board.. VDROOP at excessive levels. I have my CPU at 1.5v in bios, and realistic voltages are at 1.416v (under load) Which is still unstable for the overclock at 4.4ghz.

Temps are at 39c, and the VRMS are blazing hot. I have put fans on the VRMS to help control the heat issue, but the 4+1 phase just won't cut the mustard. If you want to OC, then please look at a different board with a 6+2 phase or higher.

Overall Review: With that aside, there have been very few problems I have encountered with this motherboard, and it is sturdy, the capacitors are holding up, and it is a great board for the features it holds. Would recommend this board for anyone wanting a stable board with very little fuss. It just works.

Just wanted to update since the first review I gave in 2011.

Pros: have a 8320 running at 4.2 ghz no problems at all, 8 gigs of 1866 ddr3 running no problems, ive had no problems with this board at all

Cons: no usb3 header

Overall Review: i never listen to others reviews about DOAs as i personally believe most people shouldnt be putting computers together themselves, in other words user error is causing their problems, that being said if you are capable, this mobo will be fine for a mid level budget gaming rig, i can run MOST games on ultra 50+ fps.
my specs
this mobo
fx 8320 @ 4.2
Artic Cooling Freezer 64 (arctic silver)
8 GB Gskill DDR3 1866 cas lat 8
64 GB Samsung SSD (OS only)
1 TB Western Digital Black
2x HD7850's in Crossfire

Pros: Great price. Solid build quality. Plethora of features and the UEFI is pretty cool.

Cons: Etron USB 3.0 controller. My OS would freeze if I inserted a USB thumb drive into ANY of the usb ports. To remedy this problem you must find and install the "110" drivers floating around the web (ASRock did not have them on their install CD or their website). So a big warning in advance to those who especially care about USB 3.0 (I don't). Etron should probably be avoided unless you don't mind hunting down and manually installing the drivers.

Overall Review: ASRock has come a long way in their mobo quality. I'd like to see them continue to rise as a solid, mainstream manufacturer, but they need to avoid shoddy implementations where possible (ie: Etron!)

Pros: this board since day 1 has been great, recognized my fx 4100 right off the bat, read my 8 gigz of 1866 ripjaw snipers at 1600. upgraded the bios to 1.20 from 1.00 at techspot rebooted and with correct timings and identification was in profile 1 for my memory (awesome).. installed and updated my firmware on my plextor 128g M2P sata3 and loving it. the bios is very user friendly and will be housing 2 6950's or 560's, running a MSI R6850 right now with a 750Hx corsair PSU.. i def recommend this board, the price is great and there are plenty of great features on this board..

Cons: nada, looks great in my cooler master storm scout case.

Overall Review: upped the multiplier in the bios to 4000mhz cooled by a hyper 212+, not much of an overclocker so i havent tried much else as of yet.. one upgrade at a time but so far coming along great!

Pros: does what the box says. Future proof.

Cons: Jetpack and hoverboard not included.

Pros: i game but like many i cannot pay the intel tax, so i got an 8 core, this mboard, 16 ram, crossfired the puppy and started the rig initially with dual raptors in raid 0. now i have SSDs and am still loving this board for the ports, the backward capability for the optical drives and the stability. this thing even came with USB 3 ports

Cons: well it is 2016 now so the floppy is now pretty much useless....

Pros: Worked while it lasted

Cons: Random reboots throughout it's life. Changed PSU to try to fix this and it still did it up until it died. ASRock refused to RMA at this issue. Then when I was playing GTA V it completely shutdown, now it's not even performing POST at all (Removing RAM with a speaker plugged in results in no beep codes.) I will not recommend ASRock as a brand anymore.

Overall Review: ASRock support distanced themselves from any and all responsibility of this product's defects. For that reason I'm giving them a poor rating. I know that this is probably just a dud board, but I wouldn't be in this boat if ASRock RMA'd this board when I was having the initial issue.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued ASRock Customer

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
We always honor the limited warranty, unless physical damage or not meet the RMA policy.
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Pros: Overall great board. If you plan on running an 8 core at stock speeds, just looking for system stability, by all means this is a great choice. 990fx chip set, sli capiability. Havn't really had any problems.

Cons: Bios is a little finicky. Sometimes when i press del and go into it, it freezes, but a simple reboot and it goes right into it, so not to worried about that.

Overall Review: Alot of ppl are giving this bad reviews, quite simply, if you plan on running a stock sytem, this is a great choice. Also, I overclocked my 8350 to 4.3, and i see no problems, so if you plan to mildly overclock, this should also do. If you plan on trying to squeeze every ounce of performance from your sytem, you should probably go for something a little higher in price, at high voltages this board just cant cut it.

Pros: Plenty of space for RAM next to CPU cooling fan. Plenty of USB 2.0 headers. eSATA3 on back board. 5x on board SATA3 ports.

Free RAM with purchase

Cons: only one PCIe x1 port.
no USB 3.0 front panel header. I know its on the two other ASRock 990FX boards, I was on a budget. No egg drop soup from this guy.

Overall Review: Plenty of on board fan headers, decent RAM with board, strong flex for a board, took some stress from the aftermarket cooler.

Pros: Black PCB ,great board layout ,amazing features.

Great if you're buying a 4 or 6 core bulldozer but the 8 core wont be tremendously overclock worthy - see cons.

Cons: If you're running a 8120 or 8150 overclocking wont get you very far. You can achieve stable clocks up to 3.6-3.8 but no further due to the VRM's overheating and actually shutting down and underclocking the cpu to 1.4 ghz, for a short time. When this happens you'll experience huge lag spikes in most modern games, or applications.

Overall Review: The reason it throttles when overclocked is becasue it has a 4-1 power phase and it cant supply enough power to the cpu without overheating Look for a motherboard with a 8-1 power phase like the Extreme 4 or fatality. the fatality actually has a 16-1 power phase... so it supports 4 times the power of this board, with a lower
TDP.

If you don't wanna overclock much or at all this is the board for you.

I'm currently at 3.7 ghz and it seems to work great there so I'm just going to leave it

Pros: -990FX board
-USB 3.0
-Sata III
-UEFI bios
-AM3+ CPU support out of the box
-Will support next gen AMD cpu

Cons: -Dual channel memory hic-up (see other thoughts)

Overall Review: I read other reviews about the stock memory settings at 1333mhz so I knew I had to change that for my 1600mhz ram, no biggie there. I also saw that a few people had issues with four sticks of ram and this mobo recognizing dual channel sticks. I installed 4 sticks of 4gb ram initially and the system wouldn't post. I removed two sticks from the A2 and B2 slots and the system posted just fine. Then I changed the ram settings to 1600mhz and added the to additional sticks and everything has been wonderful ever since. System recognizes 4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance 4GB @1600mhz for a total of 16GB.

System runs flawless now, plenty of USB ports both rear and internal. Nice spacing for dual Crossfire or SLI cards. Optical audio out is a nice bonus especially if you have a BD drive.

Was initially a bit leary of ASrock brand, couldn't be happier with my purchase, highly recommend if AMD is your cpu of choice.

Pros: I recieved this board yesterday to replace an ASUS board that has been very frustrating and had it installed and configured in about an hour.
I was able to install my Tuniq Tower very easily and still had room to fit my 8GB RAM (2x4Gb GSkill Ripjaws X 1600) in slots A2 and B2. This is a nice feature as most boards I have used require you to use the 1st and 3rd slots. The board defaulted my RAM to 1333, but was easily changed to 1600.
There was plenty of room to install my AMD Sapphire 6850 in the first PCIE leaving room to add another video card or two for 2-way/3-way crossfire (maybe in the future I will try this).
The system booted up Windows 7 Ultimate x64 from my Corsaire Force GT SSD without any problems and was running fine after installing audio,LAN, and USB drivers (one reboot required). I have not installed any of the optional software and it was nice that they didn't roll the drivers in with a bunch of bloatware.

Cons: This is not really a con, but the CPU power connector is a bit hard to get to mainly due to my oversized CPU cooler. It is not impossible to get to, but it took some hand contorting to get the cable connected.

Overall Review: I have not tried any overclocking with this board yet, but I imagine it will be relatively easy with the UEFI Bios.

I am very happy with this purchase and as always, Newegg had it delivered in only a few days. I will definitely recommend this board to friends and collegues and will most likely use ASRock in the future.
Thanks Newegg.

System Specs:
Thermaltake Armor A60 Case
Corsaire Pro HX850 Power Supply
Corsair Force GT SSD 60GB
ASRock 990FX Extreme3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE 3.2Ghz Processor
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 2x4Gb 1600Mhz RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E Video Card

Pros: - Easy to overclock via BIOS
- Plenty of space between PCI Express slots for multiple GPUs
- Solid Construction
- Looks great

Cons: None

Overall Review: I just upgraded and I am glad I went with this board. I haven't heard too much about ASRock, but when it arrived I could tell right away that the board was high quality. All my components came together perfectly and Windows 7 detected and installed all the necessary drivers upon startup. I didn't need to do a clean install of windows and everything works flawlessly. Bio is easy to use and is extremely intuitive. I was able to overclock my processor with ease and haven't had a single issue with stability. There are plenty of USB ports for all my peripherals. The internal SATA connectors are placed facing outwards from the motherboard, which I think is a nice way of doing things as it allows for a less "cluttered" board. Overall extremely happy with this product.

ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AM3+ Motherboard
AMD Phenom II Six Core 1090T (OC 15%)
Nvidia Brand Geforce GTX 560 Ti (SLI)
8GB G.Skill Ripjaw (2x4gb)
Antec 902 V3

Pros: what can i say....asrock makes it so easy to overclock didnt have one prob messing around with a fx 4100. cool features. im going to go out on a limb and say this thing is as good as a 160 dollar board from other brands.

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: as long as this thing dosnt die on me i will defintly be buying asrock again. you just cant beat the features/price.

Pros: Cheap
Has dual x16 PCIE Slots
Onboard Audio Works Well
990 Chipset
Can technically run 8 cores
Good fan power connector placement with multiple PWM connectors

Cons: 4+1 VRM that can't take much heat, throttles early
Sketchy 8 core support
No USB3 header
Gets VERY hot if you even think about overclocking

Overall Review: I replaced a Gigabyte board with this that was having all sorts of stability issues just to get it done quickly and cheaply. It does the job, but is not a good overclocker at all. I was able to squeeze my Thuban 6 core from 2.8 to 3.6ghz and that was it and the VRM would get very hot at that speed and throttle everything down. Left it at 3.0 after awhile and it ran a little hot but not bad, but not fast enough TBTH.

Fast forward to now, I picked up a FX8350 and a new case. With 8 case fans and a big CM212Evo in a push/pull configuration I can get the FX8350 stable at stock voltages but I am running it undervolted to give the VRM a little extra room and it still is stable at 4.0ghz. I am running it as is for now but will be picking up a new mobo with a better VRM setup and actual 8 core support.

All that said, this is a very good budget board for $90 after the rebate you can't beat it if you don't want to overclock and are running something that doesn't use as much juice as the FX even though I was able to eventually get mine stable.

Would probably go with the ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 for a budget board if you are thinking of overclocking on a budget though. If you can spend the extra coin on the mobo I'd say go straight to the Extreme9 or the ASUS Crosshair.

Pros: My computer turns on- I can use my computer, it works.

Board has enough PCI slots, thank a higher power it has more than one.

Is not too big, just enough fan connectors

Cons: Motherboard has bad construction.
I would love to OC but i don't trust this board for that, wouldn't want to fry my only computer.
I would love to switch to a new company, because the support for this board is terrible(see other)

One of my PCI 16 slots died on me
My 2 ram slots died on me

My first board was DOA
This is my 2nd board.

Waste of time.

Overall Review: I contacted support, and i was given the finger. Will never buy this board or give it a referral for anyone else.
Support is terrible, contact them for RMA, no response, contact them again, they say to do an RMA, i send RMA, no response.

Would i change my mind if i was given a new board, maybe better construction. Yes, yes i would.

I gave up trying to get a new board and said f it, because i didn't want to deal with them. Bad mistake and really really bad decision, i want to see how far i can push my 7950.

If you are thinking about buying this board, please check out some others, and keep in mind the support.

2 out of 5 for support, construction, and not too many fan connectors.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued ASRock Customer

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We always do our best to Support customers.
We do reply both email and phone promptly except on week-end and holidays.
Please contact us at 909-590-8308 or http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp
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Pros: Traffic shaping (X-Fast LAN), Click BIOS, Cosmetically it is a nice looking board. The 990FX Extreme3 is a great budget board and probably the cheapest option for running the newer FX Series 8-Core processors.

Cons: 4+1 power phases and not really a good choice for Overclocking. This board does not have any USB 3.0 headers. Only 2 USB 3.0 ports

Overall Review: Great board for the cost as long as you aren't planning any real overclocking. The X-Fast LAN for traffic shaping is kinda cool and seems to work well. Haven't tested the other X-Fast features yet. If lack of USB 3.0 headers with only 2 ports is an issue then an easy solution is to get like a 6 port USB 3.0 add-in card with a header on the back for your front panel USB3 ports.

The other cool feature is being able to use your computer speakers to play music even while the computer is off. I haven't tested this feature yet but I will be doing that soon. I would definitely recommend this board for a stock clocked budget build.

Pros: Seems to have the options we are looking for

Cons: Unfortunately would not post with the bonus Crucial Ballistix memory it is advertised with.
just gave me a series of 3 beeps again and again

an FX6350 in

ASRock 990FX Extreme 3

with 2 sticks of Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model BLS2K4G3D1609ES2LX0


Found it posts fine with a stick of G Skill Ripjaws 1600 cl8 from my other machine.
Crucial forums had several others with similar issues - and suspect some of board issues reported here may be for similar memory issues.

Using Gskill stick to post - manually tried setting voltage and timing per crucial forum tech suggestions.


Found it would post at 1066 cl 11

Following suggestions tried raising voltage up to 1.65V - still can't get it to post at over 1333 cl 9 ?

It runs but not as rated- and takes some doing to get going.

Overall Review: Buy other memory - hope new egg packages with better memory in offers in future - at least memory that will post.

Pros: very easy to install! no problems at all! has everything i need..I have a computer from 2 years back that is in need of some upgrading went from mini atx to this board all i had to do for this upgrade was install the board then load to windows and put the driver disk in and boom all done..
the best thing about this board is it came with bios version 1.50 witch is the latest version no need to flash

Cons: Not really a con but i didn't see it in the details its a 4+2 pase motherboard not for extreme overclocking but i have a athlon ii x4 640 propus the i have overclocked to 3.9ghz at 1.440 vcore so it seems to be stable. i could only get it to 3.3ghz befor this board but the voltage was locked but it was set to same 1.440vcore anyways so guess u get what u pay for and extra 600mhz just from new motherboard

Overall Review: I have not had even 1 problem thus far after almost a month of playing with the overclocking cpu and ram and with the ability from sli or xfire it really hit the right spot for my needs .. this comp build is purely for gaming and u dont need the most top of the line motherboard or the best cpu to play games at 60 fps all the extra money i save from amd board ill be able to get a fx-6300 and a gtx 670 or 660ti

Pros: This is my 3rd ASRock mobo and they have never let me down. Solid build, lots of features, and I'm sure it will last as long as my previous ASRock mobo's. The UEFI Bios is very nice as well. My AMD 965 is currently overclocked to 4.0 GHz with no issues.

Cons: None outside of me not fully researching the other options since i saw this was on sale and jumped on it. (see other thoughts) If i had to be picky the Northbridge does get a little warm.

Overall Review: Technically there is nothing wrong with this Mobo, but I strongly encourage you to buy their next higher model, the 990FX Extreme 4. This Mobo has no USB 3.0 headers for front 3.0 ports and no IDE connections, while for $20 more the 990FX Extreme 4 comes with both. I had an older DVD burner that I had to replace with a SATA version because of this ($20 right there) , plus a USB 3.0 header card to make use of the front ports is another $20, so right there the 990FX Extreme 4 has paid for itself and then some. The Extreme4 also has more robust 8+2 power phase design for overclocking your processor safely.

Pros: ASRock may be one of the best companies I have bought products from. They have the fastest service I have seen in a company and the products are awesome. MBs works perfect everytime.

Cons: ZERO, none, nada, just not any at all.

Overall Review: ASRock for life.

Pros: UEFI is great for noobs like me
Many USB 2.0 and a couple of usb 3.0 ports
Many features for future upgrades

Cons: With larger fan (Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo) ontop of AMD FX-8350 cpu the G.Skill Sniper ram barely clears the fans.

Overall Review: Does the job and for the price leaves many options for upgrades.

Pros: Board layout is amazing and came with software included. I've heard alot of awesome things about the UEFI BIOS and i was very interested in trying it.

Cons: Board was DOA. Spent 2-3 hours putting the entire machine together (was doing a build for my dad) and I did double check all the connections and what not. Plugged in the DVI cable, my mouse and keyboard (Both USB), and the power cord to both the machine and the monitor(not new/has been used before) and there was no post going to the monitor. the monitor didn't even turn on. I let the machine run for about five minutes and put my finger on the heatsink of the CPU and the processor was not hot. Infact, it was cold due to the amount of fans i had running. The CPU i installed was a FX 8320 8-core cpu and it IS compatible with the board. After doing research, i concluded the board is most likely to be bad. So I RMA'd it through newegg for a replacement. I did try putting in one stick of ram, three times out of a set of three, and the board still had no activity. I am bummed that this board was DOA. I was really excited to give my dad something to do for retirement.

Overall Review: If the RMA'd board comes back DOA aswell, i will ask for a refund/upgrade and would be happy to pay the difference on a better board. This board is a bit on the cheap side and I should have bought the Extreme4.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. AsRock mainboards are fully tested to assure that they're working before shipped. Unfortunately, due to nature of electronic product, it can happen. Please check the BIOS version lable on the BIOS chip is 1.30 or newer to support FX-8320. For the future reference, pre-trouble shooting can be done by below steps with known good components; remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside. Place the mainboard on empty mainboard box, clear CMOS, reinstall the CPU with heatsink fan as well, inserts 1 memory module only in A1 slot, video card with 6+6 power (if applied), power supply with connecting 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins to the mainboard, plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel header and try again. If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.asrock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: A full size board built with all solid capacitors and spacing for triple slot graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire configurations (SLI bridge included). The SATA III/6.0 GBp/s ports are designed with video card clearance in mind as well.

The Xfast Lan software helps maximize bandwidth making the internet experience satisfyingly quick while the Realtek ALC892 is offered with Analog, Coax Digital, Optical Digital, and internal wired SPDIF pass through for slightly older graphics cards that cater to this connection. I do not claim to be an audiophile, however the sound from the integrated audio card is crisp and clear imho.

Supports socket AM3 and AM3+ cpus which maximize on compatibility and future upgrades.

Fan Header placement also seems to be in mind with water cooled setups as well as builders who prefer fan control/monitoring through the motherboard resources.

8-pin CPU power header allowing ample voltage to be supplied to the power management resources of the processor.

Cons: No Front panel USB 3.0 Header built on the PCB for modern gaming cases.

Overall Review: I was fortunate enough to purchase this board while it was on sale for $104.99 and have been impressed so far with the features you get with this model.

I installed the board, loaded Win7 64-bit, and loaded the drivers for the board without any complications. The included driver disc made primary driver installation very easy, although checking for the latest drivers on the ASRock or AMD websites is key. I have not had any endeavor involving overclocking as of this writing and am unable to comment on the motherboard's ability in this regard.

System Specs:
AMD Phenom II 965 Black (SK AM3)
4x4gb GsKill Sniper DDR3 1866 Ram
ASRock 990FX Extreme3
Corsair H60 Hydro CPU Cooler
2x Evga GTX260 in SLI
Sandisk Exteme SSD 240gb SATA III (os)
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB 7200rpm (storage)
Antec DF-10 Encolsure
Thermltake TR2 750 Watt PSU

Pros: Affordable, great features, UEFI is amazing compared to old BIOS.

Cons: Doesnt cook dinner

Overall Review: AS ROCKSSS! I build my fourth build this year all ASrock MB's. I have never had an MB with more trouble free building. My builds have ranged from Intel AMD crossfire setup and entry level gaming. These have all practically been plug n play haha. Had been an ASUS guy for long time but these boards are great for minor overclocking.

Pros: Really feature rich motherboard with good software / BIOS support. The BIOS is the best and easiest to use out of any board I've ever used. This board has got some longevity to it and seems very well made. No loose connectors on the board...everything seems very solid.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: I upgraded this from a BIOSTAR motherboard that was going bad on me after less than one year. The quality of this board is very apparent compared to BIOSTAR, ASUS, and even GIGABYTE boards I've used in the past. This was my first ASROCK board and if they continue to be built at this quality then I will be sure to purchase from them again.

Pros: Great Board. Installation no problem, booted up first try with no issues whatsoever. looks and performs great. I havent pushed it too far yet overclocking, but so far so good. Have my Phenom II 555BE at 18x multiplier and 210Mhz for a net of 3780MHz. prime95 3 hours no sweat. topped out at 56c with stock cooler, Arctic silver5 at stock voltage.

Cons: Unable to unlock cores on my processor. tried at stock speed/multi with bumped voltage to no avail. I guess i just got unlucky with my CPU cause others have not had problems with core unlocking. Not docking an egg because I believe this is a CPU not MB issue.

Overall Review: Overall awesome board. Have always used ASUS in the past but after lookin at reviews and specs decided to try this one. Glad I did. Newegg shipping fantastic as usual, got order in 4 days despite placing order on friday.
My Rig: ASRock 990FX Extreme 3, Phenom II x2 555BE, 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600, Raidmax Hybrid2 730 watt, Mushkin enhanced chronos 60 GB SSD system drive, Seagate 300GB data drive, ASUS GTX 550 Ti fermi 1GB video card, Lite-on DVD DL r/w multi recorder.

Pros: Excellent board for the money. Booted up first time with bulldozer 8150. Obtained 10% overclock in bios. Stable on prime95 for 8 hours. Using corsair h80 cooler. Temps never more than 55c. Good pci spacing for sli gtx 580s. Good temps for both.

Cons: Only 5 sata6 ports. As others have stated the mobo disc has bloatware on it. Just do the custom install to pic and chose.

Overall Review: This is build number 3 for this year. And was the easiest. My rig: haf932 with 7 fans. 16 gig gskill 2133 ram. 256gig plexer sata3. Wd black 1t backup. Sli gtx 580s. 950 watt power cool psu. Plays call of duty mw3. Bf3. At max settings. Very smooth. Just as good a I7 965 extreme setup. Would recommend to others. Would buy again. Very satisfied with purchase. All purchase here at new egg. Thanks newegg.

Pros: Excellent board, AM3+ socket future-proofs it a little bit while still allowing me to use the Phenom II CPUs, supports multiple video cards in either CrossfireX or SLI (more future proof), and has a very nice BIOS, allowing more overclocking options than any motherboard I've ever seen. Included OC software allows you to test overclocking settings from Windows, without having to drop to the BIOS and reboot repeatedly.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Simple build, worked well out of the box.

Pros: price
5 6gbs sata connectors
3 usb 2.0 connecors
3 individual fan control connectors
UEFI bios is very easy on the eyes and easy to used

Cons: no internal usb3.0 connector
5 6gbs sata connectors - i needed more :(
latest bios firmware is 1.2, board came with 1.0
small board size unlike standard 12x9
defaults 1600 ram to 1333, but so does every other board

Overall Review: this is an excellent board for people building a budget pc. similar specs for an intel board is way too overpriced.

Current build:
AMD Phenom II x6 1090t - OC: 4.2 GHz
AsRock 990FX Extreme 3 AM3+
GSKill RipJaw 16GHz
OS - OCZ Vertex 2 60GB / Win7 Ultimate
Raid 1 - Western Digital Caviar Blue 500Gb
Crossfire - XFG Radeon HD 6870

Pros: Quick board
Nice Spacing for Duel Video

Cons: Will not support 4 RAM sticks at 1866 only 2.
4 Ram sticks at 1600.
This maybe FX related, but had no OC options with Phenom II either.

Overall Review: Still worth the purchase.

Pros: still gaming at 4.2 gig clock speed,8370 fx,and 16g of g skill, 1600 ram and a gtx 1060.

Cons: none

Overall Review: i will be upgrading after the new year, still going amd of course.

Pros: its running very well, everything has been cleaned recently including reapplying a new coat of thermal compound on the cpu for a brand new heat sink.

Cons: The only con i can really give is that it doesnt have onboard front 3.0 usb headers

Overall Review: its a great motherboard so far aint having any problems like other people have had.

Pros: Price was good when I bought it

Cons: After a year of light gaming use, (right after the warranty ended) this motherboard broke entirely. At first I thought it was the CPU, then the PS, in the end turns out it was this thing. Not looking forward to buying a new one.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Daniel,

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shoot the mainboard whether the issue is resolved.
• Unplug the ATX power, remove all components from mainboard.
• Clear the CMOS.
• Test with single memory module, switching another memory if problem still persist.
• Reseat video card firmly and 6+6 PCIE power (if applied).
• Connect the monitor.
• Plug the 24 + 8 or 4 pins ATX power.
• Turn on the power to check if its post.

If you have any technical support inquiry, please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp
We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock Support
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp

Pros: Overall a good mobo for the price. Looks nice and is easy to install.

Cons: Does not have a native USB 3.0 header connection onboard. I had to order a add-on card to be able to hook up my cases front panel USB 3.0 ports. Also; if you are building a full tower build, you may want to go ahead and order PSU cable extensions since the 8-pin EPS connector is at the very top of the board an in my case that has a bottom mounted PSU the cable was not long enough to reach it.

Overall Review: For the price, you can't go wrong. Minor cons are outweighed by affordability.

Pros: It has ran my 8350 FX Black edition for 2+ years now

Cons: Weak VRM but it's manageable. Like other reviewers have mentioned, this board isn't exactly compatible with the 8350 FX as it was initially advertised. I had to disable some settings in the BIOS, one of them being the turbo feature, to get this board to stop throttling when the temperatures became too hot. Also there aren't any USB 3.0 connections for the front of the case.

Overall Review: This board has handled a 8350 FX paired with Radeon 7970 and then GTX 970 quite well considering it's technically not compatible with that CPU. I've played countless games on it with hardly any problems after fixing the throttling. However if you have the money then definitely buy a better motherboard than this one to get the most out of your CPU.

Pros: Fired right up initially

Cons: Died in less than 4 mos w/ only default settings, No OC'ing.

Overall Review: Less than 4 mos after installing this board it is now dead. Tried PSU, Memory, Video Card. Everything I know to troubleshoot after 25yrs as an IT Hardware professional.
ASRock does not answer emails even after filling out their page.
Will stick to another brand I guess.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued ASRock Customer

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We always do our best to Support customers. Unfortunately, it does not meet your needs.
However, we do reply both email and phone promptly except on week-end and holidays.
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at 909-590-8308 or http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp. We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp

Pros: -Favorite part(& big part of why I bought it) is that it can do 2 PCI Express 2.0 x 16 slots at the full x16 speed. I used these to Crossfire my 2 AMD Radeon HD 6770s together & it made one heck of a gaming rig, taking everything I threw at it & performing marvelously.
-SATA ports are SATA III. Mixed with SSDs, this thing REALLY moved!
-Gigabit LAN, I won't buy a board (or system for that matter) without this anymore. Gigabit is a minimum LAN speed.
-TONS of USB ports
-On board USB 3.0 sure is fast
-XFAST USB maxes out the USB. I noticed the biggest difference in the 2.0 ports since the 3.0 ones are already blazingly fast.
-The audio was great IMO. Didn't use it's full potential tho, just stereo.
-LOADS of FAN connectors compared with only 3 on my new board.
-REALLY enjoyed the THX TruStudio software.

Cons: -UEFI - What the **** is that all about? Gimme the old Basic straight forward info the way the BIOS UI is supposed to. Quit trying to pretty things up in stupid ways. Seeing a lot of MoBo manufacturers going this route. -_-
-only 5, instead of 6, SATA ports
-....Not really much else comes to mind. I replaced it for reasons I don't remember now & have been trying to sell it for several months. There may be bad reviews and DOAs & such, but this is one we KNOW works well.

Overall Review: Got this back in March 2012 and used it up until November of this past year (2014). If I can't sell it, I'll turn it into another gaming rig so my main one and the new one can be networked together to play some sweet LAN games. I'd LOVE to put another 3 systems together specifically for LAN games on Crysis & Starcraft & stuff. GOLLY that'd be awesome to be able to afford (money AND time). -Sigh-
Great Mobo, Definitely recommend for Crossfiring 2 cards together.

Pros: bought this bad boy when it came out 2 years ago. Paid about 189about 189 put in a 8 core off bat and worked flawless a good amount of fan ports does its job.

Cons: na

Pros: everything has worked as specified. Minor overclocking on an 8320 with an evo 212 cooler. I have had no issues at all with the motherboard although if I was building now I would go with one that has better 8 core support and more USB 3.0 ports

Cons: poor 8 core support

Overall Review: As long as you do your research on compatible CPU and RAM, this motherboard works exactly as it should

Pros: Very fast boot-time. It's practically perfect.

Cons: First starting the motherboard in my new build it went into BIOS "VERY" slowly but recovered and started perfectly after.

SATA port placement is weird.

Overall Review: Get this motherboard. It's very worth it. Even though some may not trust ASRock, it's more reliable than my previous ASUS.

Trust me, this is fantastic.

Pros: fast FSB

Cons: none

Pros: Big board with lots of options
Decent UEFI BIOS

Cons: High Price for such low quality

Constant CPU throttling at stock speed makes many games unplayable

Very choppy gaming from the day I bought it.

Was misled when ASRock said this board supports the FX8350 processor then they take it off the list (I always wondered why I was getting such poor performance)

I wasted over $100 for a motherboard that doesn't work as advertised and I cannot be reimbursed.

I got much better performance out of a $45 Asus M5A78L

Overall Review: Had high hopes for this board. When I got it I was happy thinking I would be getting a board that would be a decent upgrade platform. Had performance issues from the day I "upgraded" to it. Everything about it looked right. Now I know this board is whats holding my PC back from being a stable gaming platform. Will not buy ASRock again.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please load the BIOS default.
Allow better air circulation inside the chassis and area of CPU, VRM and North Bridge chipset to avoid throttling.
If you have any technical support inquiry, please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp

Pros: Has ran without any major hiccups since purchase. UEFI is very easy to use in comparison to old bios. Price is low for this chip set. Building on this board is pretty simple. The on board USB 3.0 works well. It is a pretty full featured board though I haven't tried everything.

Cons: On board audio died after about 1.5 years, so I just bought a real sound card:) Cabling for the front USB headers is not right. It causes the board to power off if you plug anything into it. Have tried the board in two different cases with the same result, and my friend who has this same board has the same issue... Dangerous to the board, so I just bought a cheap external usb to sit on my desktop.

Overall Review: Worth the money I spent to have this as an office build. I used it for gaming as well when I first bought it and it ran just fine. I paid about $20 more than what it is currently selling, for when I bought it in Dec 2011. Pretty well thought out layout for building and it looks nice. I have had many different configurations and components put on this board. The only thing that has been the same the whole time on this is my 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 ram. (4 x 4GB), and I haven't put any more than a quad core in it either (3.8 GHZ). I gamed the heck out of it though for about a year before quitting gaming. Seemed very stable and this is not my first gaming rig :)
I just happened to look at the reviews on this board, which used to be a 4-5 egg product around the time I bought mine. I would tend to believe that with all of the DOA, etc. type problems people are having currently, that ASRock is now selling a crappier version of the original. Unfortunate for them and their customers. I would have bought others from them but will have to carefully consider on my next build.

Pros: Inexpensive

Cons: After owning for 2 years, have had ongoing front panel USB issues. When I touch the front panel, skin or usb device, it shorts out and freezes the system, followed by a very unpleasant static-snow sound through speakers. Thought it could be grounding or case issue but it must be a motherboard manufacturing defect. Newegg was kind enough to send a different case to see if the problem persisted and it does.

Overall Review: Wish I would've been more proactive in determining the source of the issue, but haven't had the time and I don't use front usb that often but BOY WHEN I DO! Guess I have to buy a new mobo, that stinks.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp

Pros: This is a great inexpensive board for someone using a lower to mid range processor. and though it didn't work for me i cannot give it a poor rating as my processor is not listed as compatible.

Cons: Not compatible with the FX series 8 cores, I have the FX-8350 and was not planning on any overclocking so i figured this board would be fine, that isn't the case. Even at factory clock this board starts to throttle my cpu down to a lower clock.

Overall Review: This is a nice board for a less demanding processor and did work, just not for my needs. If you need a mobo for an 8 core i recommend stepping up to the GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ like i did, or the ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer AM3+

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

Thank you for your purchase and review.
Mainboard supports several 8 cores FX series.
Please visit mainboard supported CPU list at link " http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme3/?cat=CPU ".
If you have any technical questions or warranty issues in the future please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp

Pros: Love it that every time that I upgrade parts in my computer I never have to worry about this board because is usually compatible with anything that I throw at it. Works either with AMD or NVidia chips.

Cons: I don't like it that it only comes with 6 SATA ports. So if you want to have more than 6 devices connected to you sata ports sorry. My case alone requires 2 sata ports therefore I lose two right there.

Overall Review: I wish it had more built in sata ports, because most ATX cases nowdays requires you to use two of them therefore leaving you with only 4 left, which for me is not enough.

Pros: offers 16 x 16 pcie lanes at an amazing price.
no fancy heatsinks or stupid colors
UEFI bios is relatively simple to navigate

Cons: 4+1 power phase truly limits overclocking capability. Ram will throttle speed and timings if too much juice is being sent to the processor.
(fx-6300 from stock 3.5ghz to 4.0 ghz would be considered a real stretch.)

no usb3 header support

Pros: Awesome mobo! It does most everything you could ever want it to do. Runs cool and has many uses

Cons: There were not many... The only con about this board are as follows...

-The OC'ing feature hyped up about the board is "almost" trash. I know most OC'ers use the bios but I thought why not try the software. It does change the changes made in the bios as well but sometimes it is not sync'd correctly which is quite annoying and you will start getting Power failures if you are not careful.

Overall Review: All in all its a great board. I would recommend purchasing the 990 extreme 4 over this board however if you are planning on overclocking much. Thanks as always!

Pros: Nice color scheme, easy mounting for after market cooling, good fan header placement.

Cons: The board doesnt have a USB 3 header so I had to buy a separate card in order to get the usb 3 ports on my case to work. The board has 4+1 power phase design which basically means NO OVERCLOCKING, you can try but you will run into issues with unstable voltage and your cpu frequency dropping. I am also pretty sure that the temperatures that it was giving me when overclocking were wrong because my new MOBO is showing much higher operating temps. I am also pretty sure my board had a faulty power header because my pc would not turn off unless I physically unplugged it from the wall, my new MOBO doesn't have this problem. I also noticed that the BIOS would randomly change its own settings even after I saved the settings. The board also made my computer freeze randomly, making me reset the cmos. Final gripe is that when I first booted up my system, it didn't recognize my gtx 770 gpu and I had to clear the cmos and I also would have to clear it on a system restart for the same reason.

Overall Review: I know ASROCK has some great products out there and they have been reccomended by many people on youtube and on forums and yes they are a great company but for my purposes this board was not good. I also think that I got a bad board. TL;DR THIS BOARD IS NOT FOR OVERCLOCKING. If you are going to run your chip at stock settings, then this board is good for you, but normal people don't usually purchase 990fx chipsets...

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Unfortunately, , 990FX Extreme3 model does not come with front USB 3.0 header.
For more information, please visit mainboard specification link at" http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme3/?cat=Specifications ".

For front USB 3.0, please visit another model 990FX Extreme4 at link " http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme4/?cat=Specifications " .
If you have any technical questions or warranty issues please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Overall, I really liked this motherboard. It's layout is very good, and it's performance is good. I run it with two Sapphire 7870s in Crossfire, and the performance is great. It would have easily been five stars, except...

Cons: After I bought this motherboard, ASRock removed the AMD FX-8350 from the CPU compatibility chart. Why? Because the cooling on the VRMs(voltage regulators) is not sufficient for the amount of power the FX-8350 draws. This would not be a problem, except I have an FX-8350.

Most of the time, it works fine, but under very high loads, the VRMs overheat and the motherboard is forced to throttle the CPU until the VRMs have cooled. This is very frustrating, as it will take my framerate from 80+FPS in ARMA 3 to 5.

Overall Review: This board is advertised as "125 watt CPU compatible," which is true, except it does not support the top end 125 watt AMD 8 core cpu. NOWHERE on any of the Newegg pages does it say that this board does not support the FX-8350, which is a 125 watt AM3+ CPU. The only way to determine that it's not is to go to ASRock's website and look at the CPU compatibility chart. Very frustrating

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Castor

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Unfortunately, CPU FX-8350 is not fully supported.
Please allow better air cooling system around VRM area to check if its resolved.
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Works fine and no surprises with the exception of a memory compatibility issue.

Cons: I specifically bought this motherboard because it claimed to support DDR3 1866 memory. However, it absolutely refused to work (would not post) with the G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 I bought for this build. (The memory was fine and I now have it working in a different computer.) I had to use some older DDR3 1333 memory I had in another computer in order to get this build ready for my nephews in time for Christmas.

Overall Review: I have bought ASRock motherboards in the past and I've been pleased. However, this experience with the memory incompatibility has disappointed me. I will probably return to the Gigabyte brand which I've had pretty good luck with in the past for my future builds.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
To support 1866 memory, FX series CPU is required due to CPU's memory controller.
For detail CPU specification, please refer AMD official website at link http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/DESKTOP/PROCESSORS/Pages/desktop-processors.aspx.
Please set the XMP setting at UEFI, OC Tweaker, Load XMP setting [profile].
Visit mainboard memory support list at link http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme3/?cat=Memory
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Looks sharp, Easily overclock Cpu's with the Asrock interface, Very Easy to use Bios, Has clips to lock in gpu's from sagging and falling.

Cons: None

Pros: This is a great AMD mobo and the best budget board you'll find if going for a cross fire setup.
Bios is great.

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: Newegg's service was, as always, great!

Pros: Features, price, chipset, bios all feel very sturdy and easy to deal with on my AMD FX 8350 system build.

Cons: No MOBO speaker.

Pros: n/a

Cons: this product dosen't fully support all video card, the manufacture dose not have a graphics card support list saying as to what is compatible with the UEFI bois.

Overall Review: I wouldn't recommend this product too any one for high ended gaming, even with an FX cpu. the performance just isn't there.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Mainboard support most of the VGA card on the market.
Please contact the VGA card manufacturer for firmware update availability.
As always, we appreciate your purchase and constructive reviews are welcome.
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: The Pros of this board was that it came with 8GB of RAM however the RAM was not compatible - will continue this in the other thoughts box.... the board seems to like my 6350 cpu out of the box.

Cons: Had to update Bios to Beta bios to use Free Ram

Overall Review: For almost a month i was upset because the motherboard would not run the RAM i got as a gift (corsair RAM) so i had to use other RAM.. Well i got board and decided to take the risk and update my bios to the beta Bios listed on Asrock website and after updating the Bios the board will now allow me to boot and use the memory i got as my Gift. This can be annoying to anyone who does not have an extra set of ram but at least there is a work around for making the RAM work.

Pros: Cheap and reliable. The UEFI BIOS is very user friendly as well and if all you want is a decent motherboard with the 990FX NorthBridge, then this one's for you.

Cons: No USB 3.0 Headers, or e-SATA headers. This isn't really advertised.

Overall Review: I bought a Cooler Master HAF 922 case, which has two USB 3.0 and one e-SATA ports on the front I/O panel, and ordered this motherboard without doing all the research. So now most of the front ports aren't powered. I recommend paying the extra ~$40 for the Extreme4.

Pros: Replaced motherboard, CPU, and memory with new stuff in an older computer. This motherboard was well priced and seems to runs very well so far.

Cons: I have two major complaints: 1) the BIOS had difficulty recognizing two older SATA DVD drives, and 2) the motherboard used side facing SATA plugs for four out of the five plugs. I know I should have plugged in the SATA cables before I installed the motherboard. However, after the motherboard was installed, getting SATA cables into the side facing plugs was very difficult to say the least. With upward facing SATA plugs, cable installation would have been a snap. Come on ASRock!

Overall Review: After the build experience, I would probably still purchase this board. This is an ASRock AMD board. I also have an ASRock Intel motherboard in another build, and I found that board to be an excellent value, easy build, and good performer.

Pros: This board has a lot of great features, that should really be standard in all boards. The xfast LAN's in game latency is a noticeable difference and let's not forget that it looks excellent in a case. I personally love it however…

Cons: The only major problem I have with this board is that there is no front panel USB 3 connectors. So as it stands I have a case with USB 3 in the back but two dead connections in the front. That's kind of a big issue when you advertise USB 3. I know I didn't look that hard, but really.

Overall Review: It's a solidly built board and I cannot wait to push it to its limits.

Pros: This has been great with my 8350. Over clocking was simple and stable with no issues with heat or instability. Just fantastic.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: For everyone reading this: please do your own research. Lot of people posting this as a 4 +1 phase and its not. Its 4+2. Over clocking is simple and works well with 125w 8 core. Running my 8350 @ 4.8 and ram at 2100mhz. People on here either don't know what they are doing, using wrong ram slots, or haven't jumped the cmos which u always do. Very nice board and looks awesome. Enjoy!

Pros: Has great options. Supports 8 core cpu kind of. Tons of USB + USB 3.0. Good PCI spacing. Good Ram slot spacing kind of. Good amount of fan connections kind of.

Cons: Why "Kind of"? Well about the 8 core cpu, this motherboard has 4+1 power phase which means when you have a power hungry 8 core cpu this board can get hot enough to break, shut down, throttle the cpu purely based off board temp, or popcorn the vrm right off the board. Scared?
Well don't be scared, just worried like me. You should buy a more expensive board with a higher amount of power phases. I bought this one because it was just above my MB budget but came with a free stick of 8gb RAM so I saved a chunk of money on my build. ASROCK seems to have build this with very good power phase components so I have had ZERO issues so far with my 8320 8 core. Except the cpu was throttled to 1.4 GHz but that stopped when I turned off the power saving throttle options in bios. It seemed to always want to throttle my cpu to save power, but after disabling that option I have even overclocked to 3.7 GHz and ZERO problems. BUY VRM COOLERS to ensure no problems ever. I am buying some VRM copper cooling heatsinks just to be safe, then overclocking to at least 4.0 GHz if this will let me.

Overall Review: Just spend some more and get peace of mind if you are going to use a hungry CPU. Even more so if you will use watercooling or a tower heatsink since these will cool your cpu a good deal but will not offer any of the stock heatsink motherboard cooling that these things are expected to have when they are build. After market heatsinks and good case air flow will help this board a lot.

Pros: It sometimes completes the boot process.

Cons: System has completed a reboot only once successfully in the time I have been using it.
This includes exiting bios and waiting for the system to restart.
It takes about 25 min of restarts, power down/clear nvram, disconnect and reconnect components to get the system to acknowledge video and complete POST.
No lights on mouse when POST doesn't complete.
System would not resume from Hibernate.

Overall Review: Are there any known fixes for this behavior?
Behavior occurs no matter peripheral configuration.
BIOS was already updated.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard;
Turn the power off.
Clear the CMOS.
Test with single memory module.
Once get the screen display, enter BIOS to set the UEFI BIOS default, to check if the symptom still occurs.
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: All the best features of an AM3+ board minus the USB 3.0 front panel header.

Cons: after 4 failed installs of WIN 7 64bit and trying 3 different working tested hard drives, the SATA controller on mobo finally died. Would no longer recognize any SATA device (DVD included) in any mode (IDE,AHCI,RAID). Guess I got one of the lemons like so many others.
This is my second experience with ASROCK. Had problems with other one too several years ago. Guess its just another company that hasn't increased their quality control in manufacturing causing painful expense of their consumers.
Will never buy their products again.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize that you having difficulty with SATA ports mainboard.
Please turn the power off, clear the CMOS.
Reconnect the HDD to SATA3_1 and ODD to SATA3_4 ports.
Firmly connect the SATA cable to both end HDD and SATA connector.
Try with another known good SATA cable.
Enter BIOS to check if mainboard has detected the HDD at BIOS, Advanced, Storage Configuration.
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Looks like it should work.

Cons: The motherboard DOESN'T work. All the fans to all my parts work, leds, and everything is turned on but the graphics card isn't posting to my monitor. After researching all my parts for hours I found that it's actually my motherboard. Other reviewers of this item have had similar problems. I tested my graphics card on my friends buid and it worked perfectly. DO NOT BUY.

Overall Review: Maybe I got unlucky i realize that, but look at the reviews currently only 50% 5 out of 5 eggs. Pay a little more and get a motherboard that has good reviews not worth the head ache I spent all day today (on my birthday) on call waiting talking to people who couldn't fix my problem and am now getting a refund ASAP.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps with known good components;
Turn the power off.
Remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside, place the mainboard on top of the empty mainboard’s box
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan as well
Test with single memory module (non-ECC, un-buffered), try with another known good memory (non low profile) if its same issue.
Video card with 6+6 power (if applied)
Plug the 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel power header and try again
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at 909-590-8308 or http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: None

Cons: DOA. It doesn't POST. The computer would start up, but thats it. I swapped good parts in, but still no POST.
I plan on returning this and getting a different MOBO.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps with known good components;
Turn the power off.
Remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside, place the mainboard on top of the empty mainboard’s box
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan as well
Test with single memory module (non-ECC, un-buffered),
Test with another known good memory if its same issue.
Video card with 6+6 power (if applied)
Plug the 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel power header and try again
If you have any technical issues or warranty questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Board worked perfectly with the 8320 i ordered with it. first UEFI bios board ive had so that took some time to get used to but it is nice. xfast lan software works very well specially for MMO gaming i was very impressed after some testing. layout of the board is fantastic and was why i went with this board over any ASUS board. ASUS is ASRock's parent company but id have to say who ever is designing boards over as ASRock should be leading ASUS board designs. I have already recommended this board numerous times in the week ive owned it. forget dropping 200+ on a ASUS crosshair this is the board you should shoot for.

Cons: none

Overall Review: The board shipped with some bad crucial ballistix memory(wouldnt post) which is no big deal i canned memory from my old board which was faster than the shipped stuff. Just beware of that if you are ordering this with the crucial memory.

Pros: Lots of USB ports, plenty of SATA ports, supports 8 core/125W AMD CPU's, looks nice.Installing drivers was easy. Glad that the board included 2 SATA cables, the SLI bridge, an audio cable for connecting my mp3 player to the PC, and a nicely designed user manual.

Cons: Wow...After having Windows 7 updated and board drivers installed, the system refused to boot the next morning.

When I bought it on May 27, 2013 the price was $119.99, same price when I checked again before submitting an RMA. The next couple of days Newegg dropped the price by $15...and are now throwing in a stick of 8GB RAM to sweeten the pot.
Was able to get the system to boot, computer worked for about 4 days continuously before dropping dead on a restart after ripping a CD...System powers on but there is no video, no POST...Almost seems spiteful with its behavior...Rather unhappy. My buddy recommended I downgrade to the 970 series but I like the extra features this board offers. I am excited for the RMA to come in sometime next week but...I am cautious about getting my hopes up. The system worked great WHEN IT WORKED. Except for the weird USB thing. My wireless mouse is connected via USB and the mouse would begin lagging for no reason. I swapped out batteries and the problem continued until the board died. This mouse worked on three other Windows 7 machines and two of them were in the exact same spot as this one to also include the system this board replaced. Terribly dissatisfying experience thus far.
Also, I don't like the layout of SATA ports 3-6, a vertical stack at the edge of the board...? ASRock, Are you even trying to make this a builder friendly board?
Also, I was taken by surprise as to the size of this board. I should have done my homework better but I guess the industry decided to change the ATX specification to make the board narrower than they used to be without telling me. This did not fit my ATX case without having to locate standoffs to modify my case with as the two previous boards in my computer case were also ATX and fit the bumps provided by the case to side-step having to use standoffs.

Overall Review: What a pile of frustration dealing with a board that doesn't start everytime...

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
For the future reference, please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps with known good components;
Turn the power off.
Clear the CMOS
Set the UEFI BIOS default.
Test with single memory module (non-ECC, un-buffered), try with another known good memory if its same issue.
Video card with 6+6 power (if applied)
Power supply with connecting 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel power header and try again
If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Easy to install and use. Cheap for what it is and i got it in a bundle which saved me some money.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: I was very nervous after i purchased this motherboard because i started to read all the reviews on how this product does not seem to work for people. But after it booted up i have had no issues. Great buy

Pros: 2 full speed PCI x16 Slots, even if it isn't 3.0. Supports a ton of chips so there are many options from just a work pc to a high end gaming machine. I upgraded from an older board and it was able to unlock a Phenom II x4 960 to 6 cores where as the last board that I had could not. Crossfire works great and thought I am not currently using it I can say for sure that it handles two 7950's in crossfire with a breeze.

Cons: The bios out of the box may not support all hardware. PLEASE make sure to flash the bios as soon as you get it to the latest release to support all of your hardware.

Overall Review: When I got it it was using the first revision of the bios, which didn't support my 960t. Thankfully I had a Phenom 2 720 sitting around that would allow me to flash the bios and use the chip. This is certainly not Asrock's fault since the 960t came out after the manufacture of this board. Keep this in mind if you're going to use a newer chip, but I've had this for over a year so the ones manufactured now could have the newer bios revisions installed.

Pros: just a really great board.

Cons: none

Pros: I went from a micro atx to this and i love it. I am running in SLI and it works great. I like the fact that it has 3 chassis fan headers and 2 CPU fan headers. Awesome price too.

Cons: None at all

Overall Review: I was a little hesitant in buying an Asrock motherboard because i dont know much about them like i do asus and gigabyte. I was suprised of the quality of this board

Pros: Great board with loads of features, easy to use UEFI bios, Supports X3 crossfire/sli, looks great, sata 6.

Cons: The board only has a 4-1 power phase, so its not that great for overclocking 125w processors... however it is my fault for not fully researching this.

Overall Review: If you have a 125w cpu and dont want to overclock or have a 95w cpu and would like to overclock, this board is perfect for a decent gaming rig.

Pros: i wish i could of found some..

Cons: DOA couldnt get it to work and i went through the recommended trouble shoot:

Remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside. Place the mainboard on empty mainboard box
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU with heatsink fan as well
Test with 1 memory module
Video card with 6+6 power (if applied)
Power supply with connecting 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel header and try again


but still nothing...

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Thank you for trouble shooting the mainboard with the steps. Please provide us with detail components that been using on the mainboard at “http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: I have worked with many motherboards over the years all have great points all have weak points. Overall this motherboard is a amazing,
I flashed to 1.50 which went of smoothly, on this setup I use 32gigs ram, 8 core processor, 2 1tg ssd drives in raid0 and a high end Nvidia graphics card. I have not found 1 single problem in the months I have ran this setup. Networking works perfect, no problems with USA or any other components. Once you install the OS on it pick a good driver updater software and you will find that there are better drivers than comes with windows and your performance will be most satisfactory.

Cons: Nothing bad to report.

Overall Review: After the initial purchase of this motherboard I have installed roughly 30 more and not one problem with a single one.

Pros: none

Cons: DOA

Overall Review: First product I have ever had issues from newegg. I requested rma replacement and second board also was DOA. I will not order again.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps with known good components;
Remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside. Place the mainboard on empty mainboard box
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU with heatsink fan as well
Test with 1 memory module
Video card with 6+6 power (if applied)
Power supply with connecting 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel header and try again
If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.asrock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: Really good layout.
Nice colour scheme.
Runs an 8 core with no hitch.
Lots of PCI choices including 3 way crossfire/sli.

Cons: It does run an 8350 @ stock clocks but i have experienced CPU throttling coming from the 4 + 1 power design. You do not have any overclocking headroom with this power design .If you are planning on overclocking go with the Extreme 4 or the Fatal1ty boards.Other than that this is a very well thought out board.

Pros: Strong stable board once you get it running, supports quad sli/cfx, 8 cores, plus many other processors. THX TruStudio is a beautiful thing, XFAST LAN actually does improve internet performance, 32gb RAM supported supposedly.

Cons: Many. Period. No USB 3.0 header and on-board 3.0 controllers are a waste of time to even attempt to try, takes a lot longer to boot and restart if they are enabled anyways. So there are actually no working USB 3.0 ports at all. Bios will not select my Solid State Drive as boot with default bios, it has to be changed manually along with AHCI. Don't install any of their useless software but THX TruStudio and XFAST LAN.

Overall Review: I've even update the bios hoping it would correct the issues however all of them still persist throughout the updated versions so it's pointless to risk for most users, if you think it's going to fix your problems your wrong will just void your warranty so don't bother!

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Unfortunately, USB 3.0 for front header is not included on this model, please visit mainboard specification at " http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme3/?cat=Specifications “ , the boot option can be changed at BIOS, Boot, Boot option #1 [your OS drive]. If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.asrock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: Not DOA
Runs my Vishera 8350 smooth
Gots everything i needed.
Love the UEFI

Cons: Outdated Bios. but no worries for me

Overall Review: Update to the latest BIOS Version went smoothly.
Great Motherboard.
My first ASRock and I'm loven it.

Pros: Nice board with good layout. Plenty of fan headers and good placement on the board.
UEFI bios is nice, easy to configure.
Has been running stable (no overclocking) for the past month or so, no real complaints.

Cons: UEFI bios is nice, but can be a little flaky at times. Trying to configure several hard drives, the bios wouldn't always detect them, unless I restarted a couple of times. But once it finally settles in, its fine.
Other than the HD issue, which was minor, the only other problem I had during install was a bad ram stick, it caused BSOD's and "hardware" errors while trying to install windows. I haven't had a bad stick of ram in years... guess that is what I get for buying it locally rather than through the Egg!

Overall Review: I have been playing Dishonored, Skyrim, Diablo III, Crysis 1 and 2, Rage, all on high or ultra without a hiccup. It has been a good little board so far!
My Setup:

CPU: AMD PhenomII X6 1090T
M/B: Asrock 990FX Extreme3
COOLER: Corsair H50
GPUS: 2X Radeon HD6870
HDS: 2X 1TB Seagate, 1X 750mb Seagate
PSU: Thermaltake Black Widow 850w
RAM: 2X 4GB Kingston DDR3 1600
OS: Win8

Pros: Easy Over Clocking
Will be able to use it for Piledirver in the future
Plenty of Slots

Cons: At least one bad memory slot. Windows started crashing a lot. So I ran Mem test 86+. Through my troubleshooting I discovered a bad memory slot.

Overall Review: I am not upset with the motherboard as much as I am Newegg. It will have to be a great deal before I buy from newegg again. In my build two parts turned out to be bad. First I got a bad HD. Luckily that was obvious from the start and I was able to RMA right away. It took longer to discover the Memory Slot problem. Now if I wanted to RMA it I would have to take everything apart and do it all over again. I'm frustrated that I received two major parts from Newegg that turned out to be defective.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. For the memory issue, please set the UEFI BIOS default, test with 1 stick memory in A1 slot, try with another memory if its same issue. Test on each memory slot with 1 stick known good memory one at the time to eliminate the slot problem. If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.asrock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: High Quality
Runs Cool
990FX
Lots of expansion slots
USB 3
Looks amazing

Cons: A little on the thin side, plugging in the 24 pin power connecter made it bend quite a bit.

Overall Review: This is my first full sized ATX motherboard I've purchased, and its been great. Speeds were a lot better than my old board from 2009, even with the same hardware. This was my first purchase in a series of upgrading my whole build.

Pros: Low Price with CPU/Memory Combo
Easy installation
Easy to use Bios
Good for using a dummy card for Physx
Stable board after bios update.

Cons: Board shipped with Bios 1.20. It supports the 8-core 8320, but I was getting a lot of random crashes in Windows 8. Updated to 1.40 easily and it fixed most of the problems, but I am hesitant to update to 1.50.

The layout of the memory slots does not leave a lot of room for larger CPU fans. Not a huge issue since I am only using 2 slots.

Comes with some cool cables, but is missing sata cables.

Overall Review: Some junkware tagged along, not sure if it came with the board or more of Windows 8 stuff. Zynga keeps popping up and installing itself every-now and then. Had to delete that, was really annoying.

Pros: it worked right out of the box. was easy to use works good with Linux. had more than enough of everything to hook all my stuff up to it. was my first build and everything worked right out of the box excepted my 1600 Kingston hyper x 2x4 to start with will see what happens with the other 8 gb soon. love Linux will never pay 170 for windows again

Cons: none very nice board and those who complain about the ddr3 slots being the same color it's clearly marked on the board right next to it and read the manual.

Overall Review: could have used a couple more standoffs on the right corners to make it flex less but no big deal I'm happy

Pros: The layout is great, I can fit so many external cards and has a lot of ports. The sata ports are weird but useable

Cons: Doesn't have a lot of USB 3.0 ports, and no headers

Pros: Got this mobo on sale with a free memory throw in. Everything on the board is marked clearly and comes with very simple instructions on hooking up the front panel switches. Bios is very user friendly with mouse support. When i cut it on, the cpu fan was running full blast, thats because by default the board is commanding all systems fans to max speed until you go in and change them to auto. Driver installation disc worked great and comes with some really good utilities to make changes to your mobo while in windows.

Worked right out of the box with the AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor.

Cons: No header for USB 3.0 front panel, but it has two 3.0 slots in the rear so not a real big issue. Probably wont use it anyway.

Pros: Good size, i like that the sata ports are on the side of the mobo not the bottom, SLI ready, USB 3.0, a lot of space for CPU cooler, and doesn't look bad. Wish it where black not dark brown but in a case its hard to tell the difference. All around a great board with solid BIOS.

Cons: Not many, other than the color of the board but thats just nit picky.

Overall Review: If you're looking for an AMD motherboard and plan to run SLI (duel Nvidia cards) not ATI cards be sure and dont buy a 970 chipset board they can only run duel ATI cards so be sure to get this board. It's a little more money but well worth it.

Pros: Worked well for 2 months. Nice bios, and nice board layout except for the sata.

Cons: Audio went bad after 2 months, and I get nothing but static and noise. Now I have to deal with trying to RMA through ASrock, instead of a quick and painless RMA through the egg.

Manufacturing of this board felt.. "suspect" out of the box. I have never felt this much flex in a mobo before while pushing memory, and vid cards into slots. Feels like it might break. Sata connectors are straight in line with the top PCI-E slot. This means your vid card is going to cover them up once it is installed. Not convenient at all.

Overall Review: I would not recomend this board, even if mine still worked. I doubt I will buy an ASrock product again.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. AsRock mainboards are fully tested to assure that they're working before shipped. Unfortunately, due to nature of electronic product, it can happen. It's very rare issue that both mainboards are defective. However, customers could contact us at 909-590-8308 prior to make sure that other components (CPU,Memory,VGA,PSU) issues. As always, we appreciate your purchase and review.

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: Great board(aside from some minor things)! Great price! Great Shipping!

Cons: Some problems with USB devices cutting out or not working properly. This is fixed as of 7/5/2012 with a BIOS update.

Had a hard time getting the cpu heatsink/fan on. Was really tight fit.

Overall Review: To those who are having USB issues:

Update your bios. I CANNOT stress how much you need to do this. You can do this very simply, right through Windows. This isn't like back in the day where dlashing the BIOS was a huge chore.


Other than some USB issues, I haven't had any major problems with the board. Bought it in April or May can't remember(I could look but I'm lazy).

Pros: Has all the connections you would need
A lot cheaper than the competition but with all the same features

Cons: Heatsink was a pain to get in properly but other than that was an awesome buy!

Pros: Great Motherboard, easy to navigate and would highly recommend for any gamer looking for a cheap motherboard.

Cons: none so far

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

Thank you for your purchase and review and glad to hear that you recommend to gamers. Your feedback is important to us. If you have any technical questions or warranty issues in the future please contact us at user@asrockamerica.com

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: Plenty of Sata ports, easy overclocking, RAID, Gigabit LAN. I have owned this board for about 6 months now. It has been a solid performer. I run use this board with a FX chip on a gigabit network for a media server.

Cons: Firmware update is needed out of this box, but this is typical

Overall Review: I would recommend this board

Pros: I have been using this board for roughly 3 weeks. So far, I am extremely impressed with my first UEFI board. The UEFI BIOS has many features for Overclockers. May people have complained when OCing. I have paired this board along with a FX-8120, which I currently have OCed to 4.2ghz. The first night of owning this product, I had a memory management issue with my Corsair Vengeance RAM, I had plugged both RAM DIMMS into the 2nd channel. I didn't think this would be causing the problem, but after I plugged both RAM DIMMS into the first channels, and all is fine. I will elaborate more in the "Other Thoughts" section. Has MANY fan headers. Very nice looking board if I do say so myself...

Cons: Comes with ALOT, and I mean ALOT of bloatware when you install the drivers, do a custom install when you install the XFast LAN drivers and such. There is also no USB 3.0 header, it is all onboard, which I would've preferred a all-out header. Other than that, The board is fantastic across the board.

Overall Review: If you have the Hyper 212 EVO, then just take off the noise vibrating, rubber plates, and just carefully slide the fan downwards onto the HS/F. Even with the tallest RAM heat spreaders, it fits.

Specs:

AMD FX-8120 OC'd 4.2ghz @ 1.4 V
8GB DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengeance
This board (obviously)
Hyper 212 EVO in Push/Pull
HAF 932 Advanced
XFX 6870 2GB
Thermaltake 775 Watt
1TB Seagate

Pros: Looks nice. 990FX chipset with a lot of good features. Really stable unless you're overclocking. I got my 5670 to overclock much higher on this board than I did with my Gigabyte board.

Supports tri SLI/Crossfire and 16/16 SLI crossfire. I'll bet it does well at it as well, considering the OC boost I got with this board. I'm loving the free frames.

Cons: Flimsy. It feels like I could break it if I got too careless and I've NEVER felt that way before. This is a real bummer for a so-called high end board.

Only 4+1 Phase power design. This means that you will hit the wall really fast when overclocking a fast chip like the new FX series that are rated at 125w. Basically, it won't be able to handle the heat generated and it will die. Bad stuff.

If you don't overclock, then it's not a con really. The board is really stable at stock speeds so far. I also expect that a slight overclock that doesn't push the CPU voltage too much would be fine as well. Just don't go thinking this is really an "extreme" motherboard. It is not. The board you're looking for is the Extreme 4, which supports 8+2 phase power.

Overall Review: I bought this thinking that I could get into the world of overclocking. I still may be able to do it, but not on the latest and greatest from AMD like I thought I could. I'll probably be overclocking a lesser CPU with a lower TDP rating, like the 95w FX 6100 or maybe even an older 80w Phenom II CPU. this will be much safer and probably just as fast to the human eye. I can just forget about getting 8 fast cores running solid at 4.5+ ghz though with this board, which is a shame since it looks so nice otherwise.

Pros: worked right out of the box and was very easy install boots fine and love the xfast ram program

Cons: manual only had instructions mobo install /bios but no instruction on any xfast programs and like the instant boot had to wing it and to me instant boot wast just like sleep mode after that i gave up on that app seemed to me useless and xfast lan is useless with slow internet connection if you have less than 2mb internet connection you will have issues you can't open more the one tab for web-browsing very slow had to remove it and internet runs better

Overall Review: overall mobo looks fine runs smooth gave it 4 stars 1 less star cause some programs where useless and no instruction on the programs had to look some where else or wing it to try them out

Pros: Excellent layout, the color scheme is nice. Over clocking was a breeze.

Cons: For some reason whenever the computer wakes from sleep,
If I plug anything into a USB port the computer will freeze. This is with or without overclocking. Using USB 2.0 or 3.0 The locking will still happen. Tried 2 different cases and a test stand to eliminate a grounding problem. This can probably be fixed with a Bios update. but who knows when. After all ASRock is known for Value/Performance not really costumer service.

Overall Review: FX-8120 @ 4.2 GHz
ASRock Extreme 3 990fx
8GB DDR3 2133 Mhz
1 SanDisk Extreme SSD SATA3
1 1.5 TB Seagate drive
2 HD6870's X-Fire
LG Blu-Ray Burner
NZXT phantom
Corsair H100 Push/Pull
Corsair AX850 Gold PSU

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. The system will be easy to get freeze once connected any device while sleep mode or not fully back from sleep mode. We appreciate your feedback and review. If you have any technical questions or warranty issues in the future please contact us at user@asrockamerica.com

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: i love the utilities that come with this, also it runs my FX CPU without a problem

Cons: none

Overall Review: got to me in three days

Pros: As previously described all the bells and whistles one could want. USB 3.0 SATA 6. No IDE or floppy header, it's the 21st Century. RMA process went smoothly.

Cons: The first board was defective.

Overall Review: Once again I had no trouble with ASRock and the RMA process. It took about three weeks. Perhaps I did not have an issue because I gave a detailed account of my trouble shooting steps. An added bonus W7 Pro recognized the hardware and did not require re-installation.