ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

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....