Final Thoughts
Is this board worth the $139.99 price tag in our current economic climate? After going through all of this I would have to answer with a resounding yes. Straight out of the box this board is easy to setup, use, and tweak if so desired. The BIOS is simple to navigate and the number of SATA III and PCI-E slots allows for some impressive configurations. Not to mention how nice it is to have a LED indicator to help with troubleshooting error codes on the board itself. All in all ASRock put together another nice board that I recommend. The only negative thing I can think of is that you have to use the driver disk that comes with the board and cannot simply rely on your OS to have everything you need. This is one of those boards where the LAN Drivers are not already there and require you to run the installation off of the companion disk. While I am on that note: if you like Zynga games and other bits of software like it they are on the disk too, so be wary of clicking ‘Install All.’ Overall, I was pleased with this experience and am sure you would be too.
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I recently upgraded to an ASRock motherboard and absolutely love it.