ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 Motherboard Review
Overview
Hardware: CPU & MotherboardsWHAT WE LIKED:
Great Overclocking Capability, Plenty of SATA ports, USB 3.0, 12+2 Power PhaseWHAT WE DISLIKED:
A large video card installed in the bottom PCIe slot might block some of the lower ports (but is a rare occurrence)Discuss in the Forum
Introduction
When it comes to looking for an AMD motherboard with the 990FX chipset, there are few new options right now. The 990FX chipset from AMD has been around for more than a few years now and we have recently only seen manufacturers doing revisions to the existing chipset boards. We are unsure on when the launch of a possible new chipset will be for AMD so for now it looks like it will remain at the top.
Today we will take a look at one of the newest of these current top-tier motherboards, the ASRock 990FX Extreme 9. ASRock’s previous top motherboard was the Fatal1ty 990FX Professional. How will this board stack up with today’s new FX series processors and the Piledriver architecture? We will put that to the test.
Let’s dive in and take a look at what the ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 has to offer.
Excellent review, good sir. Your review pretty much solely made me purchase this motherboard, and I absolutely love it.
did you have to do anything to get the memory to work at that speed i have 16gb of the same ram 4x4gb and cannot get 1866 only 1600 with the xmp profile or set to auto, i am using the fx959 so dont know if thats the issue but amd says it supports 1866. voltage is right at 1.5v did try to up it a bit and best result was 1.6 got as far as the color boxs animation booting into windows.
dunno if this helps
asrock ext9
amd fx9590 cpu
16gb as 4x4gb Crucial Ballistix Tactical blt4g3d1869dt1txoceu all 4 match
kingstone 128 ssdevga sc gtx970
corsair hx850 psu
nothing else attached atm not even an optical drive as i use usb sticks if a want to install windows.
and on topic this is indeed an awesome board , asrock have come a long way and are no doubt ahead of asus and gigabyte now, the reason i say this is i have gone from 990fx ud5 gigabyte which this and ud3 both have vram issues and throttle cpu’s , asus is just awful at the bios stage never mind anything else their uefi driver compatibility leaves looking at any lists a guessing game tbh. the asrock bios is great to setup the uefi drivers are awesome , the only board that can fully support fx9590 , i am totaly in love with this board
Sometimes you need to go in and manually set the timings for the memory to function at its rated speed. Also the 990FX chipset can act funny when it comes to 4 sticks of memory. I had the UD5 with 4x4Gb Corsair Dominator Platinums and couldnt get them higher than 1600. Would not even boot properly. I replaced them with 2x8GB Hyper Predators and got 2400mhz overclocked and 2133 at stock. Try manual settings first, if that fails pull 2 of the sticks and try agian. if it works than you need to invest in a 2x8GB kit.
Do not buy from Asrock. You will be on your own.
I bought an Extreme9 just before Christmas 2015. Went to raid my
2 Crucial 512gb SSDs and computer would not see them. Called Asrock tech and
they told me certain makes of SSDs are not compatible with Extreme9 boards. I
explained that SSDs were much older and Asrock board should be backwards
compatable. He gave me a short list of drives that were compatible and said I’d
have to buy new drives. Asrock took no responsibility and were in no way
helpful.
my mobo burnt out last week. there is no mention of warranty length on these. I was 18 da over on warranty period. load of rubbish.