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ASRock 990FX Extreme9 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

  • AMD 990FX
  • Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron 100 Series
  • DDR3 2450(OC)/2100(OC)
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  • Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
  • Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years


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  • Dale W.
  • 10/22/2014 10:52:33 AM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsGood MB but not for Extreme OC

Pros: My GSkill Z DDR2400 is stable at 2450mhz.
Plenty of fan headers, Sata plugs etc..
Good price compared to its competitors.

Cons: Doesn't overclock for me above 4400 mhz. This same 8320 cpu ran
in my old ASUS M5A97 easily at 4700 mhz by comparison.
IES is of no use as it req's another 0.05 volts when you turn it on.
See no power saving in its use, that's why its not used in Oclocking.

Other Thoughts: The included software is only average including the bios.
Somehow the CPU volts (vid) runs very low, but its not reflected in the power consumption compared to my old board.

Magic Numbers: If it bluescreens incr CPUv another click.

MHz CPUvolts PWR@wall CPUtemp
2500mhz 0.900v 190w Less than MB at full load?

3800 1.125v 265w

4000 1.175v 288w

4200 1.2125v 310w

4400 1.2875v 345w 56C

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  • Jeffrey A.
  • 10/16/2014 9:56:58 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsGood if it works

Pros: Easy Sata access on the side, Enough fan pins. Supports lots of RAM and generally runs well.

Cons: All the fan pins are above the CPU and difficult to reach.

Other Thoughts: First board I got was DOA and it took about two weeks to get the replacement boards where as it took 2 days for me to get the original. This was certainly irritating.

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  • Jeremy F.
  • 10/14/2014 12:40:28 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

2 out of 5 eggsGo with ASUS and not ASRock

Pros: It works, it's cheaper than some other 990fx boards.

Cons: Ok, first of all don't buy into these 12 phase VRMs. The quality just isn't there, the ASUS 8 phase VRMs are MUCH better, especially when overclocking. Even when you replace the thermal pad on the VRM and NB with some PK1 and attach an 84CFM Tornado 80mm fan to it, you can't reach 5Ghz IBT stable (H110 CLC with 124CFM 140mm fans in push/pull). 4.9 Ghz needs a whopping 1.6375V to be IBT stable pushing only ~94-98GFlops.

Other Thoughts: Ok, so I took off the plastic coverings on the VRM/NB and SB and attached fans to them. The fan headers burnt out and I lost sound, can't RMA because I modded this board quite a bit, plus I'd rather get an ASUS board next time. But beware, even if you don't plan on MODing this board, just plugging in fans into the fan headers may burn up your board and cause future complications like lost USB or sound.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

Thank you for your purchase and review. Sorry to hear that fan headers burnt.
The mainboard has overclocking function. However, overclocking could damage the components as well as mainboard which depend on user’s knowledge, experience and adopted components.
If you have any technical inquiry or warranty question 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

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  • Bradley B.
  • 9/30/2014 7:07:10 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsYou won't regret this MB

Pros: Everything. I love the intel gigabit internet addition. Memory OC'd to 2450? yup love that too.

Cons: The silver top covers on the voltage regulator and Northbridge are very sharp on the edges. Comes with no stock cooling solution for the voltage regulator.

Other Thoughts: as you might have seen with other reviews on this board. the socket is hot. Ill agree/ my AMD 8350 is clocked at 4.8 Ghz and CPUTIN ( CPUID HWmonitor) Maxes out of 75c. There is a solution for that. I took my voltage regulator cooling fan from my Asrock extreme 4 and super glued it to my back plate and plugged it into one of my 3 pins on my MB. My cputin temp dropped 15-20c. The cputin and core temps shouldn't be confused as the same.

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  • Donald W.
  • 9/16/2014 8:27:38 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsgreat features

Pros: This board has all the features I wanted from a mother board for my fx8320 and has been working great so far. Works good for overclocking.

Cons: it is not red and black like the rest of my computer parts.

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  • Richard C.
  • 8/23/2014 4:43:48 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsGood Borad/UEFI Lacking/USB Solution

Pros: Is a decent board that has a lot of features, not a lot of bloatware and the price is right.

Cons: Socket is HOT HOT HOT!!! Socket runs up to 70C on load at only a 600 Mhz overclock WITH liquid cooling. Use AMD Overdirve when running Prime95 to check the thermal margin while overclocking this board or you will think you are frying your system.

UEFI is hard to get a stable overclock. Can't adjust the DRAM multiplier when overclocking. It caused system instability when overclocking via processor speed, which is my preferred method. However it overclocked great when I used the multiplier method without messing with the RAM speed.

Overall it's a great board, but not easy to overclock with.

USB Issue is an easy fix that I found on the forum.

1. Open up Device Manager
2. Right click the device (the one with an exclamation mark)
3. Select "Uninstall", and check the option to also remove the driver in the process
4. Reboot
5. Wait for windows to scan the devices
6. Extract the Latest Drivers folder on the desktop
7. Install a fresh copy of the driver by Right Clicking and Browsing towards the Drivers folder ( DO NOT USE THE SETUP.EXE to install)
8. If it still show the item with an exclamation still RIGHT click and update drivers using internet.

Follow these direction EXACTLY and it will work.

Other Thoughts: I would recommend this board for an ADVANCED users only. IF you are new to overclocking you might want to go ASUS, Gigabyte or MSI.
If you want to overclock your 8350 to 5ghz, this is NOT the board for you.
I personally am ok with 4.6 GHZ out of my 8350, but if you attempt that with this board it might catch fire!

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  • John H.
  • 8/23/2014 7:11:22 AM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat Low
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggssmooth sailing....so far

Pros: goodly amount of usb
the most intuitive bios I've ever used
very easy to overclock
love the interactive map of the mobo
one of the few boards that can handle 220w

Cons: could use one more usb
overclocking the ram not as responsive as is overclocking the cpu, imho.

Other Thoughts: I bought this board to replace the asrock 990fx killer that was set ablaze (literally) by my fx 9590 cpu. When I first installed the board I could get no video or usb power. I bought a $25 Sempron 130 (2.6 ghz) to rule out 9590 as the culprit, which it was. So for the moment all I have is the old Sempron, but the with the mobo I was able to overclock it to 3.25 ghz and get respectable function. With COD4 at full graphics settings and coupled with an R9 290 vga I only occasionally lag and the CPU seems very stable never going above 48c.

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  • Alex L.
  • 7/17/2014 12:17:37 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: less than 1 day

1 out of 5 eggsBad board

Pros: Great layout, many SATA's

Cons: one DIMM channel did not work. Blue screened while installing drivers twice. Instillation also turned off back panel USB ports. Had to go through heaven and hell to get 3.0 connectors to work.

Other Thoughts: But, for those who say they're are scratches on the heat sinks, just pull the plastic wrap covering off.

This was my first and last AsRock Product and I don't need a response from the Manufacturer/

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shoot the mainboard whether the issue is resolved.
Please turn the power off.
Clear the CMOS.
Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan.
Test with single memory module on each memory slot one by one to isolate the slots issue..
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

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  • rui C.
  • 7/2/2014 11:12:13 AM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsEXtreme 9

Pros: Good VRM, easy to overclock. Pushed a 8350 to 4.8ghz without a sweat. Great build quality.

Cons: My only con is that the onboard lan did not work out of the box. I had to manual install it from the cd, but that is not worth loosing an egg over. And unfortunately the gold and brown color scheme does not match anything on my case.

Other Thoughts: I have had ASUS and MSI boards before, but this ASrock is by FAR the nicest mobo I have owned.

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  • NICHOLAS M.
  • 6/21/2014 2:43:29 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsBullet-proof... almost

Pros: This is after 4 months of ownership, and I have nearly nothing negative to say about it. Out of the box it was fully ready for the FX-9590, so that pretty much means ANY FX series CPU on the market will work. The 12+2 power-phase design is probably overkill as I am not intending to OC this already flaming CPU, but I am comfortable that the power system is comfortable running 220W without stressing.

The layout, double USB 3.0 headers, and just overall over-equipped nature of the board has me with free USB ports and free expansion slots, and that in and of itself is worth it.

I've heard a lot of "the UEFI is hard to follow" but either I'm weird, or those reviewers are because it was INCREDIBLY simple to walk through and set up.

Even though the FX-9590 is technically capped at an 1866 I was able to bump the on-die memory controller to 2133Mhz. As I do a lot of intensive calculation software (video trans-coding and editing) this speed boost is actually appreciable (3-5% speed increase) and not all 990FX boards OC the memory controller well. 4 8GB G.SKILL DIMMs were registered immediately by the board.

The included RAM Disk software gives a lot more space options than other free software packs, and having 16GB space for raw video and 16GB space usable memory makes this system cruise through even multi-layer compositions.

Cons: The included ASRock eXtreme Tuner software, even the latest version on the website, has a bug that will interact with UEFI fan temperature control options if that feature is enabled in the software as well. This can cause the OS to fully lock up, and puzzled the heck out of me, and I ALMOST gave up before it came to me. If you don't need constant control, set your fan modes in UEFI and don't bother with software overhead.

Other Thoughts: As with any mainboard, especially those overloaded like this is, don't bother with the software CDs. Get the latest drivers from the ASRock website for the best and most stable operation.

Specs:
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
AMD FX-9590
Corsair H105 Liquid CPU Cooler with Arctic Silver 5 thermal interface
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133Mhz 4x8GB
G.SKILL FTB 2xFan Memory Cooler
Corsair GS 240Gb SSD
2x WD Black 2TB
Corsair RM1000 PSU
Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X OC
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

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