ASRock AMD 990FX Extreme9 AMD 3-Way CrossFirex

This mother ROCKS! I am so impressed with this motherboard that I honestly dont know what to do with myself... I have a AMD 9590 cpu with Corsairs 16 GB DDR3 @ 1866 that has 9.9.9.24 latency... and as soon as I assembled all my parts, I saw firsthand what 4.7GHz speed looks like! Installing win pro on a 256GB crucial SATA SSD Literally took just a few moments, less than 10 minutes rounding upwards. The software suite bundled in the bios is AWESOME for someone who wants to oc their system for the first time. It also has advanced features if you are an oc head and are knowledgeable. It looks great, functions greater, and is simple to install. I even had a technical question about this board and ASRock responded timely and WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ANSWER MY INQUIRY. I'd recommend this motherboard to everyone who is AMD CPU BOUND!

Good quality board. Supported by vSphere 6 U1 (although the onboard NIC needed a driver update before full Gb speeds were achieved). Single PCI slot seems rather useless (fortunately I have an old PCI VGA card that I am using for the vSphere host itself). vSphere Notes: * NIC supported out of the box but needed driver updates to reach full performance * AMD SATA controller supported out of the box * Secondary SATA controller required drivers before vSphere would see it * IOMMU fully supported, all but the USB 2.0 controllers and onboard audio can be passed through (USB 3.0 controllers can be passed through) * There are 2 USB 3.0 controllers, one runs the 4 ports on the back panel the other runs the 2 internal headers (4 ports). * Make sure to disable SATA IDE functions on the AMD SATA controller if you want the SATA5 and SATA6 ports to function in AHCI mode (which is required if you want to use hot swapping or if you are passing the AMD SATA controller though to a VM). 1 Star was lost due to several minor annoyances, there was no one single issue to blame. Things like less than ideal placements of headers, not exposing the USB 2.0 or audio devices via PCI/PCIe buses. Unclear terminology in the UEFI settings/manual on various options (e.g. I'm still not sure if I can use the secondary SATA7-8 ports and the eSATA ports without causing issues and the behavior of the SATA IDE mode was rather confusing until you realize what it is actually doing and it is on by default). Inclusion of a PCI slot. Again none of these alone was worth a star but collectively they indicate that there is room for improvement.

I don't often do reviews unless I can contribute something with it. This board is excellent. It's well made. Has great usb 3 count. It's optional case usb slot is neat if you need it. But most importantly it handles my Fx 9590 processor with no issues whatsoever. Important to note though, if you're running this processor and this board that you need a good liquid cooler and a great power supply. I'm running with h100i and a 1000 watt psu. Stays very cool. A lot of people are searching for the right board for this processor and this is it.

I remember this board. it was great for a year and a half. then the MOSFET exploded sequentially. no, not short circuit. full on detonation in such a fashion that I nearly had a heart attack. so I stupidly bought another. same thing... to the day a year and a half later. so I came here and bought another cause surely twice in a row has to be a fluke right? nope. happened again. keep in mind this is still using the same CPU, RAM and peripherals. the board protected the rest of what was connected to it! I'd complain but of all the 990fx boards I've tried these never got to the point where BGA failures, bios corruption and weird start up freezes could ever occur. if you can stand the heart attack inducing explosive deconstruction and don't live near people who might call the cops or gunshot snooping microphone arrays then this board can't be beat. it has one type of failure and it wont wreck your equipment when it goes. honestly I'm kind of sad I never got into board repair until this year. it probably was repairable as I've seen complete screw ups manage to replace mosfets easily. the board honestly could have done with a second bank of capacitors/mosfets and a better cooler but looking back I feel like it was a good board even if every single one did go off in the most terrifying fashion. I've endured years of suffering all because I shortsightedly switched to asus.

let me pretense this by saying I loved this board for a few weeks before I started having issues with it. this is a fairly nice board for the price point, more than enough peripheral connections, and what not, I dont need to play up the 9990fx if you're here you've looked at the specs. My issue's come with asrock itself, I am a huge fan of asus (asrock is a subsidiary of, think what Honda is to Acura), I have been building PC's for years, not commercially, but for myself, family and friends, I'm going somewhere with this I promise, the issue at hand is that the board randomly dies. I called customer service for asrock directly, spent about 5 minute's bringing the rep up to speed on what I'd already done( assuming someone who is a service rep for a motherboard company has some know how) after I was done he tells me I should try clearing the cMos, I naturally assumed he was joking and laughed, which soliceted a very confused "sir?" from him, at which point I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere, I asked if he had any background in PC building, he told me no, so i asked if i could talk to someone who did, not to be insulting, but I dont have the patience to sit and go through this whole process of clearing all this stuff, DL'ing new drivers, restarts, especially since I had already done these things, got a "manager" had a few minute discussion with him at which point he told me he had to have it ok'd by the shift manager, this, in my opinion is BS if the first guy I talked to can RMA without a floor manager, then his direct superiour is more than qualified, but whatever. we jump to the next day where I had to call back since the floor manager was unavailable. called when was specified, sat there for about an 10 minute's while they looked for my case #, never was found, so I asked for whomever was in charge and informed him that I would not be buying another ASRock board, the board was broken, and the customer service was less than what I paid for the board is worth

I have a AMD FX 8350 installed on the motherboard and it's really fast, the only slight downfall is the bios. I am running the CPU at 49MHz all day long and no problems at all and it's running cool. I have a H6o water cooled cooling system installed. I have a i3770K installed in a Asrock extreme 6 and the Asrock AMD 990FX Extreme9 is just as fast if not faster and runs cooler

Handles up 240-watt CPU, has high energy phase for over-clocking, lots of SATA hook-ups, good on-board audio, plenty of USB 3.0 including a front bay bracket to make them available on the front of your case. Down sides- it's getting a little dated and does not have PCI 3.0, but not a big issue to me. Does do 3 way XFire, but at reduced bandwidth (x8,x8) but good luck fitting the many massive cards on to the board or in your case comfortably. I personally only run one card, and will probably only run one card, so a non-issue for me. Solid and stable board for the price. CPU- AMD FX8350 (with Cool Master 120m Seidon) RAM- G.Skill Sniper 8gb 1866 SSD- Adata 256 Gb GPU- MSI R9 280x

This mobo is outstanding! Everything works perfect. It can hold my new AMD FX9590 with no firmware updates at the moment. The sound is very good! I didn't need to update any drivers and it delivers nice bass and trebles. RAM is working perfectly at 1866Mhz. My 4TB HDD was welcome by this MoBo with no troubles. No problems so far, I would buy another any time.

Great board brought it because its one of the few boards that supports the fx-9590 (220w) IT RUNS EXTREME COOL very easy to mount the cooler AND it doesn't take up a lot of space hence it will be able to fit in most mid tower cases. Very pleased with the buy

Mit etwas Grundwissen und Fingerspitzengefühl läßt sich dieses Board leicht einbauen und konfigurieren. Läuft sehr stabil unter Windows 7 64 Bit mit 8 GB RAM und einem AMD 6-Kernprozessor. Etwas fummelig die USB 3.0 Frontblende. Sonst alles zur Zufriedenheit. Meine Empfehlung.

Todo perfecto, a pesar de ser un artículo remanufacturado estaba impecable y además una bestia de placa ,la placa tenia aun los plásticos en los disipadores de nb y sb

EN TEST le produit est vraiment très beaux et respire la fiabilité (tu m’étonne vue le prix) dans le carton il ya donc la carte mère,des ponts SLI double et triple ,une carte fille avec deux port usb 3.0 que l'on peut mettre en façade dans une baie en 3.5" ou dans un slot a l’arrière du pc et la notice est en plusieurs langue dont le français pas encore demarer car il me faut la paye pour finir le pc. je mettrait a jour mon commentaire dans 2 mois au plus tard EDIT 02/12/2013 : la carte supporte beaucoup de chose ,4 barrettes RAM avec une cadences max de 2400 MHZ (bien lire le manuel en ligne car selon les processeur la carte mère ne supportera pas la fréquence et fera planter Windows ,je me suis fais avoir ...) 5 port PCIE .... ATTENTION la carte na pas de sortie VGA donc carte graphique obligatoire et bien sur une récente ,mon ancienne qui a 1 ans n’était pas supporter. malgré la difficulté de mise en route, très bon produit donc 5 etoile

Ho deciso di dare 5 stelle perché la scheda madre è veramente ben fatta è riuscita a supportare tutte le ventole presenti nel casea limenta alla perfezione la mia CPU FX 8350 e supporta 32GB DDR3-1866MHz Vengeance Pro. La qualità è pari/superiore alle altre schede madri pe r questa cpu ma la compatibilità è migliore. Unico problema che ho avuto quando all'avvio ho provato ad installare una scheda video sapphire x300 pcie (troppo vecchia?) Arrivata anche quella recente tutto è partito a meraviglia. Apprezzo l'applicazione per velocizzare l'usb e anche quella per la rete. Altri software non sono necessari. I drivers sono stati necessari per installare la rete lan. Alcune cose carine sono i pulsanti di avvio e spegnimento sulla scheda madre utili quando si testa il DR debug integrato e il reset CMOS esterno quando si smanetta.