ASRock A790GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Full ATX board with extremely well placed connectors to help keep all the wiring out of the way.

Cons: The bottom PCI-E slot is only 4x which will hurt CF performance but I use Nvidia cards so it won't affect me at all. making it a 8x slot would have earned the 5th egg. TLB fix for early Phenom (AM2+) cpus was nearly impossible to find as well.

Other Thoughts: Went through 2 boards before I bough this beauty. Was first equipped with Phenom 9500 (Agena) but upgraded to Phenom II 955 when I was unable to find the TLB fix option in the bios. I wanted to upgrade the CPU anyway so it was no big deal in the end. Handled both CPUs amazingly.

Pros: Excellent With amazing performance...

Cons: n

Other Thoughts: n

Pros: Basically has everything one needs for everyday computing needs. Bought the first one a few months ago and it has been flawless. Impressed me so much that I just bought a second one for my gaming system and again I had no issues when I installed it last night. Use the latest Windows 7 drivers from the AsRock website to enable the HD Audio.

Cons: None that I am aware of. Meets all my needs. BIOS setup is easy to navigate and beat my old MSI 780G motherboard hands down. No issues on first boot, except for the audio, which necessitated the download of the VIA HD audio drivers since I had the board setup for HD audio.

Other Thoughts: This motherboard paired with an AMD Phenom II X2 550 cpu (3.1 GHz), 4GB of GSkill memory (5-5-5-15 timing) and an ATI/XFX PCI-E graphics card (used both the 4670 and 5750) and you will be very pleased with the FPS and resolution on COD4 and COD Modern Warfare 2.

Pros: I combined this item with an AMD 8750 x3 cpu as a gift to my nephews and it's worth every dime. works like a charm.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Windows 7 didn't actually supported all the hardware so i had to search it up online in the manufacturer's website, good thing they had exactly what i was looking for.

Pros: Almost (See Cons) booted on first try.

Fast boot is is a complicated stand-by mode, but made me grin.

Comfortable layout.
Easy Install.
I/O plate didn't cut me.

Cons: First boot was a failure. I was very worried that the board was DOA, but remembered other reviews mentioning the 4 DIMM problem. Popped two out and was good to go.

When I tried to update the bios, I couldn't get anything from the ASRock website to work.

Out of frustration I popped the ram back in and it worked without BIOS update. This was using a 64bit OS.

Other Thoughts: Big, albeit, impromptu upgrade from my Biostar TF520 A2+.

I ordered a 125w CPU without checking compatibility first, had to order this to replace it.

Stupid mistake on my part, but I'm more than satisfied, and with and extra PCIE slot there's now room to grow.

Specs:

ASRock 1790GXH
AMD Phenom X4 9750 Agena
XFX Radeon 5770 1GB
G.Skill DDR2 800 4gb
XClio Goodpower 500w

Pros: MOBO WORKS LIKE A CHARM STRAIGHT OUT THE BOX HOOKED IT UP WITHIN 15 MINUTES AND IT WAS RUNNING. WAS KINDA SCEPTICLE ABOUT GETTING IT NEVER HAD ANY ASROCK PRODUCTS BECAUSE IVE HAD MY MSI K9A2 PLATINUM MOBO HAD IT CROSSFIRED WITH 4 4870S AND A AMD PHENOM 2 X2 550BE PROCESSOR AND IT WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD NOTHING IS WRONG WITH IT I NEEDED A UP TO DAT MOBO FOR A GOOD PRICE/PERFORMANCE MY OLD MOBO WAS A SB600 THIS IS A SB750 WHITCH IS WHAT I NEED. THANKS NEWEGG

Cons: NOT REALLY A CON SEE AS THOUGH I UPGRADED MY GPU TO A 5770 BUT CANT CROSSFIRE 4 CARDS NO MORE

Other Thoughts: SYSTEM SPECS:
ASROCK A790GXH/128M
AMD PHENOM 2 X4 955BE WITH C3 STEPPING OC'ED 4.2
2X 5770 HIS RADEON OC'ED TO 960/1445
4 GIGS OCZ GOLD SERIES PC2-6400 OCED
RAIDMAX SMILODON CASE
250GB 7200RPM WD HD
160GB 7200RPM WD HD
147GB 15000RPM FUGITSU HD
PLEXTOR BLURAY DISK DRIVE WITH LITESCRIBE
SAMSUNG LITESCRIBE DVD/R-RW DL
ALL ON A A-POWER 850 WATT POWER SUPPLY THAT ONLY COST 64.99 HAD FOR 7 MONTHS NOW AND STILL RUNNING STRONG

Pros: does everything its supposed to after bios upgrade

Cons: had to upgrade bios for it to recognize four sticks of ram

Other Thoughts: installed cpu, four sticks of 1 gig corsair xms ram and it wouldn't even post. checked everything than tried removing two sticks and it booted and ran fine. I knew the ram was good so I updated the bios from 1.20 to the latest 1.50 and it recognized all the ram and has been doing great for two days now. Go figure

Pros: none, colorful

Cons: DOA, asrock customer service unresponsive

Other Thoughts: will not buy asrock ever again

Pros: Nice BIOS.

Cons: Uses ATI instead of NVIDIA for the on-board video. S/PDIF optical out not supported by ALSA as of Ubuntu 9.04. 533 MHz DDR2 memory (KIngston) only runs at 400 MHz. Absolutely worthless technical support.

Other Thoughts: The DVI output is hugely flawed - there is an awful snow artifact in the output that is very apparent against any dark background, but that's not even the worst problem: the output cuts out completely as soon as there is any graphics load (try running glxgears at any reasonable size). I thought this was a problem specfic to ASRock, and possibly even that specific board, but I've seen the same problem on every board I've bought that has the ATI chips (ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte). I wrote a very technically detailed description of the problem to their tech support, and they didn't even have the courtesy to write back and tell me that it is a hardware problem with the ATI chips. And the fact that a bug this huge got pushed out in hardware is shocking. Shame on ATI. I wish someone would make an AMD board with NVIDIA for video.

Also, the proprietary fglrx drivers are a disaster. They fail to sync against the vertical refresh, so you get a huge shear artifact when watching video.

Pros: At great price for all the features/support you get out of this board

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: first time buying this brand...no complaints so far.