Question 1

Anyone know if this motherboard really picky about memory compatibility? I'm on a budget and was looking to put $60 to $100 into 8gb of 240-Pin DDR3 1600. I'm not a huge gamer but I do play world of warcraft occasionally.

Accepted Answer

Go to their website and check the "memory support list" for that board. Stick to those and you shouldn't have a problem. Once you select your board you will find that option in the upper left hand of the screen in the small menu. Generally, i stick to Corsair and G.Skill when buying RAM. Hope this helps.

Question 2

Can I run 64 bit windows 7 pro on this board?

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you sure can. it's what I run on this board and I have not had an issue yet. just keep in mind you will probably have to flash the bios out of the box, a simple process.

Question 3

Will this motherboard be compatible with an amd fx-8350?

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ASrock's website lists compatible cpu's, but i am not allowed to include a link.

There is one FX-8350 listed, but it's the FD8350FRW8KHK

I am having difficulties with compatibility myself.  Bought this board on 9/7/13 and it shipped with bios version 1.0.  I have heard of people sending boards to the manufacturer for bios updates, i will try that.  FYI, even if your cpu is listed as compatible on the website, without the current bios, you can't be sure.

Question 4

can it support windows 10 ?

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I was running 8.1 Pro 64bit, but never updated to 10 so I can't give answer about it. I had this board for less than 2yrs and it died on me personally I would recommend getting an ASUS board. I have an Intel based ASUS mobo that has been running strong for over 7yrs, but that's my opinion.

Question 5

Can you 2 way Crossfire/SLI with this board?

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This motherboard does support Crossfire, but I'm not certain it supports SLI. If I had the manual in front of me I would confirm, but I know it supports Crossfire.

Question 6

So from the customer reviews, would people not suggest this for the build I am trying to finish for my girl. New rig for raiding on WOW's next expansion and the upgraded graphic's engine, finally. Anyways her build so far looks like this, 
FX 6300 cpu
MSI 760 gpu 
8gb of Gskill ripjaw memory
650 watt psu from Seasonic(semi modular)
seagate drive
and I am currently looking for a solid, decent feature(usb 3.0, sata 3.0) motherboard that is under a hundred preferably lower than 90 just because of budget. I could use suggestions on what a good board with solid support for these components the cpu and geforce gpu?

Accepted Answer

Looks to be a reasonable selection for mid-level gaming machine. I haven't had an issue with either this model or the revision 1 version.   
For the price, it has all the new options, usb3, supports newest chips, and most importantly... It's the losest price board I've used that wasn't a pita to set up.  
Sata port 5 and 6 are sorta wonky, but the rest just works. Put the boot drive on one of the first 4. Don't blindly install all of asrocks extra software, it work, some of it faster, non required though. However, I didn't enjoy the clutter.  Default drivers, nothing special, it's rock solid.

Question 7

Will this motherboard have any issues with installing a previous hardrive that has os and games on it ?

Accepted Answer

I tried this very thing out of curiosity(but installed fresh anyhow).  Windows 7 booted right up first try.  It will eventually prompt you for activation again however, as windows will detect different hardware and think you're scamming it.

If you are not, just call windows customer service when you do attempt to activate as your old # will not work, tell them you had to replace computer parts but are using the same hard drive not copying it.

It's worked for me when I've had to reinstall windows at any rate(bum hard drive, and a seperate major system failure with lots of replaced parts).  Good luck.

Question 8

Will I be able add an old hardrive that has windows 7 and games files into it?

Accepted Answer

Yes you should be able to, As long as the hard drive connects through a Sata connection it will work with the motherboard.

Question 9

Does this motherboard support overclocking?

Accepted Answer

Yes - it's actually designed for it and comes with a pretty nice suite of tools to do so.  I've looked at them but I don't personally feel the need to OC, I'm running a AMD FX 8350 (4ghz) it's plenty fast and not worth the increased temp., etc... Also it's  easy to OC ram, which I have done.  All in all I'm very pleased with my purchase.  Great for the money too.

Question 10

will this work well with windows 7?

Accepted Answer

I installed it in a computer that I put windows 7 on. It has worked wonderfully for me.

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