ASRock 990FX Extreme4 AM3+ 990FX Motherboard revealed

[santosjrm]

Anybody know the release date?

[MrComputereviews]

this board has ide ha asrock is old school

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@MrComputereviews I know, that's why I don't like that motherboard.

[MrComputereviews]

@Nicolas11x12TECH I only by gigabyte and asus

[AvroBellow]

@MrComputereviews I have an ASRock 4Core Dual-VSTA (My cousin uses it in a gaming build I made for him) and an ECS PM800-M2 (Use it to stream movies to all TVs in the house) that still work after 7 years. I also have an ASUS PHP800 that I use in my HTPC and it still works great after 9 years. However, I will NEVER recommend MSI. I had an MSI K9A2 Platinum (790FX Quad-Crossfire) and it failed THREE MONTHS after the warranty was up. Boy was I PISSED! I'd never had a mobo die that fast before.

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@AvroBellow Thank you for telling us, will keep that in mind. :)

[MrComputereviews]

@AvroBellow one time i had a evga x58 and it caught fire no kidding my i7 950 was fried

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@MrComputereviews Oh my god! So EVGA motherboards aren't the way to go, I guess. ;p

[MrComputereviews]

@Nicolas11x12TECH there ok but i had a i7 950 running 1.475 volts and i was stress testing it caught fire 

[AvroBellow]

@Nicolas11x12TECH What's wrong with having an IDE header on it?

- It still has all the features of the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 plus the IDE header

- IDE DVD-RW's are just as fast as SATA

- I already have 2 IDE DVD-RW's so that's $40 towards my FX-8150 CPU

- It leaves 2 extra SATA ports open

- ASRock has great quality and great prices.

- The ECS Black Series A990FXM-A also has an IDE header

- That IDE header alone is the reason my bulldozer build will be based on ASRock or ECS

[MrComputereviews]

@AvroBellow ide cables are to wide and hard to hide

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@MrComputereviews You're right.

[AvroBellow]

@MrComputereviews Fair enough, they are hard to hide but I have a gigantic computer case (Ultra 40670). I have more room in that monster than I know what to do with. Also, 90% of my power cables are behind a panel so no matter what data cables I use, the build still looks clean. I can understand in a smaller case that an IDE cable would be annoying although I have seen some that go from flat to normal round wire to flat again at the connectors so that might be an idea.

[MrComputereviews]

@AvroBellow still ide is out of date

[FantastickDark2]

Nice board...video= crap

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@FantastickDark2 Nice board...viewer= bad

[Shroffff]

sli on amd board, is that chipset or does it have lucid ?

[Nicolas11x12TECH]

@Shroffff It's not Lucid, it's the AMD 990FX Chipset which support full CrossFireX and SLI features. AMD bought the license for 990X and 990FX Chipsets.

[Shroffff]

@Nicolas11x12TECH SWEEET! still will always buy radeons but still i am sure loads of people will like that :)

[MrComputereviews]

@Shroffff i buy nvidia for the phsyx but radeon is ok

[Shroffff]

@MrComputereviews phsyx is old and not many games use it really,

[MrComputereviews]

@Shroffff metro 2033 uses it

[Shroffff]

@MrComputereviews is there a huge difference without it though ?