i been thinking about this for a while. i still can't decide which board i want.
who has actually used the asrock? same for the asus.
i know asrock has higher memory and gold caps.
and asus is good for heat.
i did read storys of asrock boards that smoke while overclocked.
also asrock boards that fail.
so what board is recommended?
I have the sabertooth and it's rock solid, can't comment on the other one as I have never used it or owned it.
I personally run a Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and I find it a very stable overclockable board.
I had my FX8350 running stable at 4.6Ghz (I know its not very high).
Had no problems with the motherboard itself at any point!
As for the Asrock I'm sorry but I cannot give any information on that board but as I said the Sabertooth 990FX is a great board from my experiences.
Both boards are rock sollid. The extreme 9 has a 12+2 powerphase digi vrm. and a better lan chip. However the Sabertooth is offcourse a rock solid board aswel, with 5 year warrenty.
Extreme 9 is asrocks highend board.
Love my Sabertooth. 4.8Ghz stable for over a year and a half now. Love the features.
how would you rate the memory?
I have a Sabertooth 990fx R2.0, solid board, great sli/crossfire support. OCed to 4.5 stable 24/7, would recommend it all day every day.
I went with the sabertooth r2.0 no oc but the two features that I like are the usb bios flashback and the direct key that boots straight to the bios.
Asrock, for me at least, has had a few memory issues in the OC'ing department. I would go for the ASUS if I had my druthers.
the higher memory was interesting but they say 2450Mhz oc i know there 2400mhz. i was wondering how stable that was.
I mean I don't really see the point of it. For most people having higher RAM speed really doesn't change much. Its just a bigger number
i just don't hear to much about asrock and i never used there boards.
the asrock board i am not understanding why it has a high 2450Mhz ram when some websites say the processor only supports up to 1866 Mhz?
well the motherboard supports up to 2450mhz OC ram. So you can run ram up to that speed, when overclocking the ram, it supports upto 1600mhz by default. But that is basicly with all boards, you need to set the ram speeds by hand in the bios, But thats easy.
But honnestly what is the reason why you botter about the ram speed? ram speed does not matter at all for gaming. there is no diffrence between 1600mhz or 2400mhz basicly, because the games are using Vram, which is alot faster then your ram. So it basicly does not matter for gaming, lower cache latency is more important then highspeed ram. CL9 ram is the sweet spot. 1600mhz or 1866mhz does not matter much.