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7/17/12 at 10:20am
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There's a fairly new motherboard out that looks very good for the price. I assume it is placed between the Sabertooth 990FX and M5A99X EVO. Does anybody have this motherboard? Would it be a good upgrade from the horrible cheap micro-ATX motherboard that is strangling my GTX 560's performance with it's DDR2 RAM?
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7/17/12 at 10:48pm
Hi, I recently just purchased this board upgrading from the Asrock 970 extreme 3. It solved a few issues I was havirng. One was the temps for the vrm and or cpu socket area, the temps with the new board are much lower This might be due to the fact of having a beefier heatsink and also having a 6+2 vphase compared to the Asrock 4+1. Also the Samsung memory I purchased was being unrecognized by the Asrock board and I could not select the 3:8 divider to select ddr3 1333. In windows my memory was also recognized as a different speed but that was not as much as an issue because I only go by the settings I set in the bios. Overall I like the board, at first the Asus Uefi bios seems overwhelming but you will get used to it if you haven't already. I would recommend both boards though as the problems I had with the Asrock were miniscule.
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7/22/12 at 7:38pm
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Hi, I recently just purchased this board upgrading from the Asrock 970 extreme 3. It solved a few issues I was havirng. One was the temps for the vrm and or cpu socket area, the temps with the new board are much lower This might be due to the fact of having a beefier heatsink and also having a 6+2 vphase compared to the Asrock 4+1. Also the Samsung memory I purchased was being unrecognized by the Asrock board and I could not select the 3:8 divider to select ddr3 1333. In windows my memory was also recognized as a different speed but that was not as much as an issue because I only go by the settings I set in the bios. Overall I like the board, at first the Asus Uefi bios seems overwhelming but you will get used to it if you haven't already. I would recommend both boards though as the problems I had with the Asrock were miniscule.
I am considering buying this board but am not sure if it has the built in raid controller through the sb like the other boards? it is not listed in the product description on newegg or the asus site,do u know if it does ? does it say anything about it in your manual?
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7/23/12 at 10:01pm
I can select the raid option in the bios via sata ports 1-4. I believe all SB950 motherboards are capable of raid.
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7/24/12 at 2:59am
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Just a little update: I bought the Sabertooth 990FX instead.
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7/24/12 at 3:00am
AsRock 990 extreme 4 is a good board as is the saber tooth.
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7/28/12 at 10:35am
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I can select the raid option in the bios via sata ports 1-4. I believe all SB950 motherboards are capable of raid.
Ok thank you I thought all the sb950's did but couldnt figure why they didn't mention it
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7/28/12 at 10:57am
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AsRock 990 extreme 4 is a good board as is the saber tooth.

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8+2 power phases, 990fx chip se,t almost all black, and made by asus sister company.
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7/30/12 at 3:55pm
hello's
i have the 99x evo,it got a 6+2 power phase,its a nice board 2 x 8x pci-e in crossfire,you cant run a ahci and hardware raid parrallel.its a good choice with a 6 core fx or phenom and likes a big gpu or two mid's (7770).
i dose have nice onboard sound,but i got it so i can fit my sb X-FI titanum sound card as well as have a dual slot gpu and it can breath.
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