Joined on 11/28/04
Can't be beat for the price
Pros: Price and features. I have had a 4770k in this motherboard for the past 4 months at 4.4Ghz rock solid stable. Recently I wanted to try out the G3258 and this board did not disappoint. With the latest BIOS 2.10 it does support the G3258 and it overclocks beautifully on such a low cost board. 4.6 Ghz at 1.37V. There is nothing bad that I can say about this motherboard at this time.
Cons: None whatsoever in my experience with the board.
Overall Review: I really can't believe the value of this motherboard.
Immature BIOS
Pros: 1.It does work well with a lot of tweaking and troubleshooting. 2. Looks nice
Cons: 1. BIOS setting will not stay! Can't overclock 2. Changing memory settings causes a boot failure even within RAM specs 3. VRM's run too hot 4. USB ports work when they want to in the BIOS
Overall Review: I wish I would have just bought an AsRosk or Asus board. Stay away from this board like the plague until a more developed BIOS is released. It seems like they released this board without troubleshooting anything. Waste of $300 for now.
Growing pains with Ryzen 3000 series and memory function
Pros: Works stock. BIOS flashed without issues. Aesthetically pleasing. Decent sound and I/O for the price.
Cons: Memory only works at 2133 on current bios (Gskill DDR4 3600mhz) any higher and it will not post. Also cannot overclock the infinity at all without it not booting. A lot of other boards are also having these issues so I anticipate them to be solved with future bios updates. Just disappointing a board would be released with such basic functionally not working correctly.
Overall Review: Wait if using Ryzen 3000 series CPUS
Best 7970 for the $
Pros: 1100Mhz out of the box is incredible! This card comes with a non-reference PCB of Powercolor's own design that just screams high quality. I changed the thermal paste on mine to something a little more high quality and it dropped the temperature by 6 C. Now under full load it maxes out around 63 C. I play at 2560x1440 so it is pretty much at 100% all the time.
Cons: I wish this came with the old Power Jack that Powercolor used to sell because it does sag a little.
Overall Review: Powercolor is quickly becoming my favorite AMD GPU vendor. I had to RMA a 7950 a little while back and it was a painless process compared to other brands I've dealt with in the past.
Impressive for the Price
Pros: I bought this motherboard to build a spare gaming PC for when my friends come over. I paired it with an X4 965 and a GTX 465 that I had laying around. So far this motherboard is very impressive for the price. I even have the CPU 100% stable at 4Ghz. The only thing I would have to deduct an egg for is that I can't overclock by the multiplier in the BIOS. If I use AMD overdrive in the OS I can change the multi of the CPU but not in the BIOS.
Cons: none
Overall Review: For an AMD build on the cheap I don't see why this motherboard can't do the job.
Low on price high on features
Pros: This board is without a doubt the best bang for buck X79 board. I ordered it with an i7 3820 and it booted fine with the stock BIOS. Crossfire works great on this board too! It recognized the XMP profile right away for my RAM and the UEFI BIOS is easy to navigate.
Cons: The southbridge fan is insanely loud, but it only kicks on while gaming so it's not that much of an issue.
Overall Review: Asrock is quickly becoming my favorite motherboard brand. This is my 3rd Asrock board and I have never had an issues with them. I used to have an Asus Rampage IV Extreme and this little board has 99% of the essential features but costs half as much! Keep up the amazing work Asrock you have a customer for life.