ASRock 990FX Extreme9 Motherboard
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If you are looking for a fully loaded socket AM3+ motherboard, the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 may be an excellent option. It comes with eight SATA-600 ports, eight USB 3.0 ports, and four PCI Express x16 slots supporting both SLI and CrossFireX, even though, due to the positioning of the slots, the motherboard only supports three dual-slot video cards.
Highlights of this motherboard also include the voltage regulator circuit, using a digital design; the professional-grade audio codec (110 dB SNR for the outputs and 104 dB SNR for the inputs); and the Intel networking chip, which allegedly achieves higher performance than competing integrated circuits.
It is also nice to see someone releasing new socket AM3+ motherboards, as there haven’t been new releases for this platform for a while.