3 thoughts on “ASRock MB-970EX4 Socket AM3+/ AMD 970/ AMD Quad CrossFireX& nVidia SLI/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard”

1. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

   
   Perfect for e-currecy mining!, May 1, 2013

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   SoundChaos –

   This review is from: ASRock MB-970EX4 Socket AM3+/ AMD 970/ AMD Quad CrossFireX& nVidia SLI/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

   This board is by far the cheapest option I’ve seen to support 3-4 videocards in mining litecoins! Without using risers at all, you can get 3 dual slot videocards running at once all in one computer, and if you want risers, it will mine with 4 cards at full speed.

   Currently running an AMD Sempron 2.7ghz single core with a 7950, 5830, and a 5770 with a combined 1.15Mh/s in a standard sized ATX case all off a 750 watt PSU

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2. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

   
   Great motherboard for FX 6300., April 22, 2013

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   T. Salyer “Ace26” (Kentucky) –
   
     

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   I got this motherboard for my very first gaming build. It has been up and running for 2 weeks no and it’s fantastic. The bios is very easy to use, first timer like me overclocked the cpu and ram very easy. I have the turbo core on the fx 6300 turned off and have it overclocked to 4.2ghz with no voltage change on a hyper 212 evo and max cpu temp is 44C. The board itself has a ton of features, usb3.0, 3pcie slots, xfast,xboost, its just great. Comes packaged very nice with two huge instruction booklets and everything you need to install it, even a sli bridge. I have a Gigabyte GTX 650 TI Boost edition on it overclocked as well and with this board HAF912 case, 8gigs of corsair vengeance 1600mhz ram, 6 120mm cooler master fans in my case, hyper 212 evo cpu, 4.2ghz overclock, overclocked gpu, 750 watt cx corsair psu, 500gb western digital black hdd and my case stays at 32celcius max temp. My gpu maxed out at 52C, and my cpu maxed out at 44c. I’ve only tested two games so far Metro 2033 and Bioshock Infinite and I can play them both completely maxed out with AA on and advanced psyx on at 1080p. I get 60 plus fps always on Bioshock Infinite and as high as 88. On Metro 2033 I get between 48-63 fps always. Great motherboard, can’t beat it for the price and all the features you get.

   My System
   ASRock 970 Extreme 4 Mobo
   HAF 912 Case(6 120mm fans in case)
   750 corsair cx psu
   500 GB WD Black HDD
   FX 6300 CPU (4.2ghz OC)
   GTX 650 TI Boost Edition
   Asus Optical Drive
   Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler
   Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600mhz
   NXZT SENTRY Fan/Temp Controller

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3. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

   
   Great motherboard so far!, March 18, 2013

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   D. Henderson –
   
     

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   I had to RMA some Corsair Vengeance RAM, TWICE and was about to blame this mother board but bought some GSKILL RIPJAW ram and everything is smooth as butter now. Overclocks well, just remember to use the unlocked multiplier and not the FSB to over clock. Things were a lot more stable when I used the unlocked multiplier ( which might only be included in AMD Black Edition CPUs… ) . Other than that, all of the ports work great, Dr. Debug is actually kind of cool as you get to see the steps the mobo is taking when booting up. Oh, and if you are using a SSD drive and Windows 8 be sure to change the SATA mode to ACHI ( I think I spelled that right ? ) and don’t use IDE. Your SSD needs to be in the correct SATA mode or it won’t be that fast at all and your SSD software will tell you to change it via the BIOS. Only thing is, once you change AFTER installing Windows 8….Windows 8 no longer boots! You have to boot into safe mode, yada yada, better to just do it right the first time.

   Oh, one thing I did not like is that the mobo doesn’t come with screws or raisers! Back in the day, mobos used to come with these kinds of things otherwise how is one going to install this in a case?

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