ASRock A75 PRO4 FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Works great! Installation was simple and fast. Plenty of onboard fan controllers & SATA ports. Everything works great! The board isn't too flimsy. Pins and connectors were easy to find. The manual actually matched the board as far as labeling. The BIOS Utility is easy enough and graphical. I never OC anything (don't fix what ain't broke theory), so if you are in the business of tweaking, I can't help you there. However, it seems to have easy menus for navigating through the beginner (essential) tasks. For the price, I highly recommend this mobo. The last two mobos I had were ASUS and MSI. Both are still running today, but have ALWAYS given me problems (LAN drivers corrupting, USB ports disabled, bad support). This mobo is solid in construction. The capacitors and layout are nice. There is even a debugging LED called "Dr. Debug" to indicate error codes on the mobo.

Cons: At first installation the USB ports did not recognize my USB keyboard and mouse (it did in the BIOS, but not the OS). After a few minutes and plugging them in various ports, it finally recognized them. The driver installation disk has an easy install ALL feature. I don't recommend using it. Pick and choose what you want or you will end up installing Norton AV software that is ALWAYS a pain to remove.

Overall Review: Hopefully, in 6 months I will be able to return here and update my review. I am hearing good things about this fairly new company. I am taking a gamble by buying this mobo. So far, I am highly impressed with the level of easy, the installation guide and the quality for the price.

Pros: No problems with install. -USB 3.0, eSATA, and 1394 ports. Not many FM1 boards have all of these. - The debug LED is handy - CMOS reset button on the back panel, not labeled on the Newegg image - HD audio sounds really nice - OC is easy. Lots of manual and auto options. Allowed me to increase the multiplier on my 3650 APU.

Cons: - I think the USB 3.0 driver was out of date on the CD, or at least it didn't work for me. The one on the website worked though.

Overall Review: A6-3650 APU, 8 GB Gskill 1600, cheap Antec 380W power supply. You can be pretty lazy on the OC, just increased the CPU multiplier and forget about it.

Pros: Lots of Fan Headers 4 USB 3.0 ports Great Value for the price 6 internal USB headers Internal Firewire header I had to do almost zero config in the UEFI BIOS to get everything working as advertized.

Cons: Switched off VGA video when I tried to install Ubuntu Linux (11.10).

Overall Review: I couldn't bring myself to remove an egg because I'm not sure if this is an Ubuntu issue or a motherboard issue. I upgraded my Ubuntu system and the VGA was running great. When I tried to boot to the Ubuntu Live CD to upgrade my HDD, my monitor just turned off. It took me two days of troubleshooting to figure out the problem. I might still be troubleshooting if I weren't able to borrow a monitor. I've had other motherboards that were never able to do what they said that they could, so overall, I think my first experience with ASRock is a good one.

Pros: Works Great, The Graphical bios and included utilities make OC'ing and verifying system parameters a breeze. Runs Cool and has 2 CPU fan headers along with 3 chassis fan headers which allows for easy fan control straight from the operating system.

Cons: Power connector was a little hard to snap in had to grip the bottom of the board to seat it fully.

Pros: ease of installation, well thought out layout for all components

Cons: see below

Overall Review: was impressed by the board from the word go, only had a few gripes with the board. would have loved a header for multi card reader. one or two more internal sata ports would have also been fine. The first 4 sata ports take some getting used to, but would have been nice if they were not at 90degrees to the board. over all a well put together board

Pros: Great onboard audio, perfect match with AMD A8-3870K, love the BIOS!

Cons: Absolutely none!

Overall Review: One of the best mobo's I've ever seen! It Asrocks, and so does NewEgg!

Pros: Looks like a great motherboard but the one I was sent came dead on arrival.

Cons: Board came dead on arrival. HDMI and VGA do not work, bios do not boot up. Other than these issues I am having, The boad looks really nice.

Overall Review: This is a great board but mine came dead on arrival.

Pros: Running this with the A6 3500 as a server and HTPC combo. Loaded WIN7x64 Home Pro and VMWARE Player. Added virtual WINXP and Server 2003 with one dedicated proc for each. Playing video using both WMC and XBMC which run flawlessly. Tried playing a DVD using WMC in WIN7 while transcoding in WINXP and backing up my kid's computer in 2003. Respectable job though no speed demon. Just happy it didn't crash. :)

Cons: None at all - definitely recommend.

Overall Review: One question I had - that another reviewer (thankfully) answered is how good the sound works. I can confirm the 7.1 sounds works beautifully through HDMI. I have a 30' HDMI run to an Onkyo receiver which feeds both the speakers and an Epson projector. The invisible giant scene in "Voyage of the Dawntreader" (voices all around you) was rendered perfectly and in-sync. ASRock A75 PRO4 AMD A6-3500 Llano 2.1GHz G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB WD Scorpio Blue 500MB System drive Seagate 3TB (x2) storage drives Onkyo 5008 Receiver Epson 6010 Projector 165" screen Amazed neighbors