ASRock X58 Extreme ATX Intel Motherboard

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none Sent my SECOND board back As it (& the first MB) would say on for 2-5 seconds then shut down. I asked for a refund.. as an alternative, today, I recieved my third X-59 MB... I believed I'd give it a try, installed it, the 3rd MB says on long enough to boot up, as I am installing W7, it shuts down & reboots. following 4 times, I stated enough, called Newegg and asked for a complete refund. which they agreed too. What are the alterations of getting three boards that WILL NOT remain powered up? ASRock tech assistance said ask for a refund. I have built over 30+ computer systems (since 8088 processors) & have never ever had this significantly difficulty. Steer clear of this MB and stay away from wasted time!

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The X58 Extreme has the identical capabilities as much more high priced X58񳅆/DDR3 mobos, but it's substantially more affordable. Properly, prices may well have changed now, but at least when I purchased it, it was so considerably less expensive than any other equivalent boards. By no means actually had any difficulties with it aside from the onboard LAN. Weird troubles with the onboard LAN -- can be solved, but it's still annoying -- read beneath If you are experiencing troubles with the X58 Extreme's onboard LAN chipset, do not RMA or purchase a separate NIC card just however! Odds are it's not really dead. I identified that powering off the Pc will clear up the concern and it will perform once more. I don't just imply shutting down or rebooting it, that won't fix the challenge. I mean truly UNPLUGGING your energy supply and leaving it unplugged for 10-15 seconds. I have no notion why this fixes it, but I tried each and every other attainable resolution and nothing else worked, but this functions 100% of the time. And on an unrelated note, if you strategy to overclock on this board, I would not suggest making use of the ASRock "EZ OC" characteristic.

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Low-costOverclocks very quickly - unusual for ASROCKConnectors are well positioned - makes install simplerCan use a wide range of video cardsPlenty of expansion roomBooted initially try Expect memory complications, mine is on authorized list and still won't register appropriate speed. Why don't I RMA it? The system performs rapid sufficient for me to not bother dismantling anything.On-board sound didn't impress and brought on odd noises in my speaker technique. My old sound card installed and worked fine. Excellent MB for the value, the overclock and video functions make it 5 eggs, but I took back 1 for the memory and sound issues.

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None DOA. That says it all. Very first time this has occurred to me. I am scratching them off my list of future buys. Will stick with Asus.

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It was affordable compared to other 1366 MOBO'sEffectively laid out and all the necessities. Not confident, but it just died a couple of weeks ago.Tested the P.S. it was okay, Took the system completely apart and re-built twice to no avail.Moved all the elements to a new EVGA MOBO and everything worked just fine. Wouldn't you know... only 1-year warranty on this board!

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Extremely great board for OCing. Has an automatic overclock settings that appears to function nicely. (In the finish I hd to set mine manually anyway) Be confident to connect the 8 pin energy as nicely as the 24 pin. I identified the board would not even post without having the 8 pin power also. (The manual type of tends to make the 8 pin sound optional) The automatic overclocking started as well high Ɠ.6GHz). I could only go up to three.3 due to heat constraints of my case. So I had to set base clk and cpu multiplier by hand for my setup. Nonetheless incredibly easy.

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This board is wonderful for the income. Program is very stable, but it does not like to warm boot occasionally (after becoming on for weeks)... if I wait 30 seconds it posts quickly. I'm running a i7 920 @ three.6-7ghz 鳦 BLCK and up to 22 multiplier in turbo mode). CPU temp idles at 45c and peaks at 70c in Prime95. I can't believe that they have ocz ram even listed on the very same page. I had some (N82E16820227365) that worked fantastic in other systems, but was TERRIBLE with this board. The process would freeze for 10-20 second intervals.... overall performance was awful, no matter what settings I attempted. When I switched to some Hyundai OEM ram, all my problems went away. Make certain you get ram that is compatible with this board. It overclocks very properly and has all the functions I require.

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You'll locate my evaluation for this motherboard back in March; my develop with this board continues to blaze along; nonetheless, I've in no way seen such a wide range of evaluations - and in massive numbers (nearly 400) - as this board has gotten on Newegg. As an old guy geek, I hang about Newegg reviews like a wino. I'm encouraged by the (slight) recent improvement in the Newegg critique ratings for this board; and if the buyer was lucky, some older evaluations had been outstanding. Clearly from the Newegg critiques alone, this motherboard has had significant excellent manage troubles . . . some brought on by inadequate packing for shipment. A shame. Some of the best and most beneficial user evaluations I've ever read, a primer genuinely for how to inspect, right if essential, and install a motherboard. It's wonderful to have geek close friends out there . . . even if you are young gamers. d:-}) Yeah, I'm also old to be a gamer I guess . . . I can bear in mind 6-inch green Pc screens.

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Anything about it so far. Absolutely nothing so far!

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Operates fine from day a single. Enter BIOS with delete important. My initially construct about 9 months ago I employed this mobo as suggested in Tom's BuildYourOwn article. Haven't had any problem. I am now OC'ing, but only up to 3.6 with air cooler. Haven't applied the EZOC software program since I've read that using software program to OC just isn't reliable. Documentation was clear and understandable for a neubie like me. I put this rig together for about 񘋰.00 similar configuration on DELL web site 񘜼.00. I'm a pleased camper. My expertise is limited with understanding what to count on in a mobo and "How to compare" with other boards. With that said I have no complaints my computer runs great. This opened a can of worms. I want to construct an additional pc but cash is restricted.

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Seems to have good attributes, too poor I by no means had the opportunity to use any of it. DOA. I'm angry and will under no circumstances be an ASROCK customer once again mainly because of this. I tried to reach an individual in their organization for tech help to figure out why there was no post, no error code in the LED, and no speaker beep. Well, turns out that they have NO Customer Support. Theres nothing as disappointing as waiting to create your i7 build only to uncover that you have to disassemble almost everything and obtain an additional mobo. DO NOT Buy. GO WITH THE Larger BRANDS TO SAVE YOU THE HEADACHE OF RMA.

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Low cost, great capabilities some items were oddly placed on the board such as the CPU fan header, and only having spots for 2x external usb headers :( General, if you want a wonderful mobo with lots of functions at a great price tag, this is the a single to get, was finest of Tomshardware.com for 2009, supports tri-sli or crossfire, and has auto overclocking functions if you don't know what your carrying out.

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low cost... DOA This was my first ASROCK board sadly it was DOAed... Must have spent a little much more for more trustworthy board..

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Similar features as ASUS P6T. Low cost. Wonderful board when it functions. I've had this board for a couple of days more than a year. About a month ago, I began acquiring random BSODs. I didn't think too substantially of them. Possibly it happened once a week. I blamed it on Windows, because I was running some intense finite-element simulations. Last week I noticed that the systems was lagging a bit. Immediately after checking my memory usage, I saw that it only recognized four out of my 6 GBS of RAM. Later that day I got 3 BSODs in a row, with the cause listed as "Memory management"TL;DR: One particular of the memory slots burned out. This occurred a year and one particular week after I purchased it, so I can't get a new one through warranty. Devote the extra funds and get the Asus P6T. The three-year warranty is worth the expense. It also presently has a ฮ mail in rebate, as nicely, so it comes out to be roughly the same cost as this.

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This board has most of the functions of substantially additional pricey X58 boards for a heck of a lot less money. It was uncomplicated to install and set up, and receiving it to play good with my OCZ Gold DDR3 1600 RAM was as effortless as tweaking a couple of settings in the BIOS. It's been handling my mildly overclocked Core i7 920 (running at 3.15GHz) beautifully for several months. Receiving one that functions out of the box is apparently the luck of the draw. It appears that the principal dilemma with these boards is the packaging -- when I opened the box, it was apparent that it hadn't been doing a excellent enough job of protecting the board from harm throughout shipping. Thankfully, the worst of the damage sustained by my board was a slightly bent S/PDIF port, which I easily bent back into its correct position and I've had absolutely no troubles with it ever because. The moral of the story is that if you manage to get a board that wasn't damaged due to ASRock's failure to include adequate protection in its packaging, you're going to enjoy it. Its six memory slots, three PCI-Express 2. x16 slots, help for eSATA, and solid onboard audio are attributes that would have price me a lot additional funds if I hadn't identified this ASRock board. The BIOS is easy to work with, and it's been performing just fine operating 24x7 with an overclocked CPU for the pretty much 5 months that I've owned it.I've docked the x58 Extreme one egg due to the flaws in its packaging and the lack of a manufacturer warranty. Honestly, ASRock really should know better, and the severe problems the packaging has induced for so quite a few unfortunate purchasers will give me pause prior to I acquire an additional ASRock product. Would I suggest this board? Yes, but only for men and women who have the patience to go by means of the RMA process if they're 1 of the unlucky ones who got a DOA board.

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Absolutely nothing !DO NOT Invest in THIS BOARD. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR Cash ON IT. This is the 2nd board that has died on me in much less than 1 year. I build two personal computer systems with specifically the same components, one for me and one for my wife. My major board died in much less than 4 months. My wives just died today, ONLY 11 months old. I am just going to buy a gigabyte and throw this one particular in the trash. DO NOT Invest in THIS BOARD. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR Funds ON IT. The concern with the OCZ Ram is a bunch of (exploited deleted) too. If you look at my prior post, I had to return both sets of OCZ Ram since I could only run it 1ǘ speed 齠 mzh) for it to be stable. I had to switch to Corsair to make the systems work.DO NOT Invest in THIS BOARD. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR Money ON IT.

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see other thoughts see other thoughts This board will not POST immediately after restart when OCed. If I stay at stock, I can restart til my heart desires. But anytime it's OCed, if I restart in anyway, it will reboot but it will not post. The indicator LEDs light up and it sounds like it's trying to POST but it just can't POST. If I wait about 2-three mins, it tends to be ok and will POST. But this is very annoying when you are trying to OC and needing to restart frequently.

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To appropriate my earlier post... the mobo has no onboard HDMI... I meant to write that it has both optical and coax S/PDIF interfaces. See my earlier post.

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This was the only Board I could afford when i bought it.Still under warranty at time of death! Died following practically a year. RMA'ing, so far that process has been pretty painless. Worked nicely till one day the NIC suddenly died. Read a review right here, unplugged for a couple of minutes, it worked again. A couple of weeks later, it gave up on me completely.

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Almost everything still works.Plenty of space for a SLI configuration.BIOS is effortless to read and overclock with.ASRock EZ clock is a good function for amateur overclockers.Onboard audio is great.Functions well with a five.1 surround sound program. The LAN port stopped operating for a day. worked fine soon after and nonetheless works fine. I have owned this motherboard more than a year already.I have 12gbƖx2gb) DDR3 1600 memory installed in right here.

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The value, ease of overclocking utilizing the loaded presets is idiot proof. Nicely designed board connections for a clean install instead of wires operating everywhere. Can't really assume of any. This board exceeded my expectations for the value. Read a couple of evaluations complaining about not getting able to use OCZ ram, I installed 6GB of OCZ DDR3 1600 gold high performance ram and it posted the first time. I believed ASRock was a smaller company owned buy ASUS, right after also owning a few ASUS boards I'll say this, ASUS demands to take some lessons from ASRock!!!

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There are a lot of built in features that make this board desirable to the newer users. The BIOS is mostly uncomplicated to realize and setup, despite the fact that some of the CPU and other voltage settings are listed extremely differently from other MoBo Manufacturers. In spite of some descent features, this board failed immediately after about a year. Right after inspecting it to see what could have caused the failure, I observed the thermal paste on the Northbridge Chip had been applied in excess and sloppily. Some parts of the green "board" region about the contacts of the chip were shiny, warped, and appeared like melted plastic. The board had been really slightly overclocked (no voltage alterations produced) and temps had been all properly inside tolerances. AsRock Support's answer to this was "too poor, don't overclock." I understand the finish user takes a modicum of threat in overclocking, but an overclock with no need for voltage alterations and the outcomes of my inspection on the North Bridges leaves me with the impression that it's just their "out" for incredibly poor manufacturing.

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Doesn't appear as horrible as some mobo's, more affordable then other 1366's. Bought the very first one particular...DOA, next one DOA, subsequent one particular DOA, subsequent one particular DOA. I am carried out with ASRock merchandise, horrible top quality, no reliability, and no refunds.

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Finest bang for the buck x58 board, all the functions of an ASUS board/bios for half the price. None Windows 7 Recognized all the drivers out of the box. All these people today hating on this board makes me wonder if they're just name brand fan boys. There's definitely absolutely nothing wrong with this board, with continuous support with bios updates I don't see how it could be given a 1Ǜ. Does almost everything a motherboard really should do.If you want USB 3. and SATA6. get their subsequent model up.

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Pretty stable, not too several problems. This is a great evaluation but in my opinion, the bios has some minor problems. BIOS does NOT save settings that you specify in the voltage/frequency for cpu/memory/bus.default voltage for memory was 1.85v, Im not overclocking, just want lengthy life and stable, lowest I was in a position to set it was ӭ.55v - fine. Some of it is related to other settings but that must be noted.default CPU voltage is 1.30v, underload will go down to 1.25v, slightly high but this was intended as an overclock platform.BIOS requirements tweaks, fix it ASRock. Considering that I received this mobo, some things occurred.Seagate 1TB drive failed...鼮GB or bigger have troubles with ALL manufacturers)nVidia Gforce 9800GT failed, completly, stalling boot approach. Wish my luck was superior (or possibly greater standards for QC), not genuinely related to the mobo although.