ASRock 90-MXB100-A0UAYZ Motherboard Micro ATX DDR3 2400 NA A88M-G/3.1

I purchased this board to replace the ASRock FM2A68M-HD+ motherboard as it was extremely faulty and was killing my CPU's lifespan! I gave ASRock a second chance as they gave me great customer service and offered a free replacement and no charge for shipping the bad board back. However, I just do not trust that model anymore and did not want to take any chances, not to mention I need a working computer and cannot be without. Boy am I glad I made that decision because this board is like night and day! Keep in mind this board is an inch wider than the FM2A68M-HD+, however it still fit just fine in my case. A big note is that it does not physically accommodate a large graphics card without some sort of sacrifice, which is my MSI RX480 Gaming X 4G. It fits the PCIe just fine, however, it blocks the 1 - 4 SATA 3 sockets. Luckily there is the side facing 5 - 8 SATA 3 sockets which makes up for the sacrifice. I am running two SATA 3 HDDs and a SATA 3 SSD without any problems via those sockets. Also you are going to want to use a Cooler Master 212 series style CPU cooler as there is not much room between the RAM cards and the cooler. My ADATA XPG in the A slot is touching the fan shroud, just to give you a mental picture. Even with these few annoyances, I cannot dock any stars because this board is literally plug and play for my setup. I was worried I would have to jump through hoops to get Windows 10 to transfer to this motherboard and it was a nice surprise that such an occurrence did not happen. Windows 10 booted right up and accepted the new board upon very first power up! There are some nice fan features in bios as well that let you either monitor fan speed via MB temp or via CPU temp, which is available in all fan modes. Got mine set to performance and adjust to CPU temp for all fans. This board runs my CPU 12 degrees cooler than the FM2A68M-HD+ and is also blazingly fast in comparison. Another nice surprise is that I am able to run both my ADATA XPGs and Corsair LP Vengeance RAM cards together in dual memory mode @ 2133MHz and have 14.1 GB of actual free memory at any given time with only 64.8 MB reserved to the system. To clarify, the reason why I have two different brands of RAM is because I thought the Corsair was not compatible with the FM2A68M-HD+ due to a 4GB hardware reserved fault. I found out it was a faulty board after replacing with the QVL compatible ADATA XPGs and ASRock confirmed it. Okay so back on subject, the A88M G / 3.1 is a must buy for AMD gamers going with CPU and discrete graphics card. It is perfectly priced at around $75.00 and an awesome deal when it is at $64.99 like when I made my purchase. It runs fast, runs cool, has great audio by the way, and is a quick build with no issues UEFI wise, nor issues with compatibility hardware wise. Heck, even Windows 10 went without any hiccups! Here is my setup for the board: EVGA 500 watt power supply, AMD X4 880K CPU, ADATA 240GB SATA3 SSD, Western Digital SATA 3 1TB 7500RPM HDD, Western Digital SATA 3 1TB 5200RPM HDD (used for basic storage), Corsair LP Vengeance 2133MHz 2x4GB RAM, ADATA XPG 2400MHz 2x4GB RAM, and MSI RX480 Gaming X 4G graphics card. I have the CPU set to 4.2GHz with x-boost enabled and have the UEFI handling the voltage automatically for all settings. So far the performance is awesome! As for the case, it's a XION Performance XON-310 BK, which I do not recommend for this setup. Don't get me wrong, the air flow is great, but it is an extremely tight fit that requires fabrication to the internal hard drive framework so you can power the graphics card. There is zero room between the brace and the graphics card. My next step is to eventually upgrade to a slightly larger case, but for now this works fine.

Replaced my stock dell mother board with this and it works great. Took my processor from 3.6ghz dual core to 4.4ghz with out glitches or running hot. Seems odd to have a tuner in the bios and another in windows. Id pick one version and stick to it. switching back and forth seems to cause some issues.My original A6 5400k featureing its mediocre integrated graphics was dinosaurish. New mobo and same proc screamin along 4.4ghz and runs cool. I did replace the A6 and get Anthlon 880k. Runs fallout 4 at max settings, had to step up fan profiles (its no longer quiet when i game(38-42c while gaming), but i like conservative temps (40-45c or below).Runs new 880k well. Using just Asrocks OC program and changing just the clock modifer to 46 I was able to get stable 4.6ghz oc, Cpu temps only 10degrees hotter than ambient air temp under gaming(FallOut 4 Max Settings 1080P) Mother board temps outright at ambient +/-5 degrees. Never seen Cpu temp above 95*F4.7 ghz oc would boot but wasnt stable. Probly could mess with settings and voltages to get it to run glitch free. But for pulling it out of the box hooking it up, and after a day or two of thermal cycle in the thermal compound, telling it to get on it, it did awesome. And has done so for 1year solid now.It was awesome deal, features are great for what i paid (65$ cuse it was cheep!) One year up date. Removed Asrock's tuning Program, reset the bios to clear any previous over clock setting and down loaded AMD's Overdrive. Overdrive did its tuning and found stable clock modifiers all the way up to 6.3 ghz. Ran the synthetic bench test program within Overdrive and saw cores hitting 5.8-5.9 ghz. Appearently even a cheep water block with a 360mm radiator allow for some serious thermal margins! Bench test scores in Overdrive went from 4328(stock 4.2 overclock) to a bench score of 8674. Simply amazing performance

I was skeptical about this purchase as the last ASRock motherboard I bought arrived dead. I got an RMA and that one was also dead. When I received this board I was praying that it wasn't dead... and to my good fortune it wasn't. I have been using this board for 3 months now and it is great. I have had no problems at all. For only $70 at time of purchase it has a m.2 drive which is really cool.

Wish this motherboard has 2x pcie-3.0 x16. Even so this board is really sweet and runs well. Looking forward to eventually getting an m.2 ssd for it. The Type A and C usb 3.1 ports means really high speed data transfers and will also charge your ipad if you have one. The red and black motif is pleasing to the eyes as well.Update: After having it a few days, i realize there is a limitation that isn't advertised about this board but is found in the manual. If you use the m.2 slot for a ssd then you loose the pcie-3.0 x16 slot instead of the pci-e 2.0 x4 which doesn't really make sense since the m.2 card is x4 not x16. So basically one has to choose between either using a discrete graphics card or using a 2nd gen m.2 ssd. And you only find this out in the manual after you purchase it!

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AWESOME board like it very much will buy 2 more in the future

Llego bien y rapido. Pero no era lo rapido que esperaba. Lo normal para un Amd. Seguire probando y haciendo test de uso.

Great mobo! Bios is super easy to figure out! And all for a good price!

great mother board