ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: The motherboard is still going strong and without issues after a year and a half. This was my first build ever (did it for my wife), and since I have used about 10 different ASRock motherboards, and all have worked perfectly.

Cons: Other people's negative reviews!

Other Thoughts: I had an interesting experience about 2 weeks ago with my wife's computer, which uses this motherboard. I came home from work and she tells me it will not turn on. I power it on, and all the lights from the case fans light up, and all the other components spin up, but the board will not post. I figure its the ram, and so I take some ram from another PC, that is currently working and start testing one slot at a time. Nothing happens, the board still does not post. We have 3 cats and the last time I dusted her case was in November (this happened mid February). Needless to say, her case was filthy and to test anything other than the RAM I would need to clean it out. So I got my dusting supplies (can of air and swiffer duster) and start cleaning. After I made the thing spotless, in order to start swapping other components, I decided to try and power it on one more time. Sure enough, the motherboard posts, and starts right up. It was as it was before, no issues at all. I then went ahead and tested all the ram sticks one more time, all 4 (the two original, and the two I added), and all 4 worked and so did every slot, so I left her with 16 GBs of ram and put her computer back in its place.

I consider it a lesson learned, ASRock mobos work amazing, but they need to stay clean. The odd part is I can't think of a reason why dust would cause such issues.

This is for all those people I see writing about how their board dies after a year or so for no reason. I have a feeling what I experienced I am not alone in, and the other folks writing about their issues are experiencing something not very different and unique from mine.

Anyway I hope this saves at least one other person an RMA, and helps in general.

Pros: Has been an amazing board until just recently.

Cons: Up until yesterday I've had no issues with this board, now I can't even get it to post. At first I had some artifacting on my GPU so I thought that might have been my culprit, after swapping in a diff GPU it still wouldn't go to post so I tried completely removing the GPU and still nothing would happen when I tried to power it on. I replaced the PSU and still nothing happened. I changed no settings after having had it the way its been for over a year. I quadruple checked everything to make sure all pieces of hardware were seated properly and they were. I've tried testing 1 stick a ram (2 different sticks) in each dimm slot and I still can't get anything to come to life with this board.

I'm pretty sure this board is dead and I sent in an RMA request to ASrock, lets hope they are as good about their service as they are about putting out a quality product. I still say even after having this issue I would still buy from this company. Depending on how the RMA goes I may end up buying a z77 board.

Pros: Has a ton of features and easy to build with

Cons: position of SATA connectors

Other Thoughts: After 14 months, the board itself seems to be wearing out. Everything loads/start-up slowly. Decided to reload whole system, still same problem Overall, not impressed.

Pros: I have built 4 workstations over the past 5 months for professional clients running these boards and have been quite satisfied. I do not overclock, only require stable boards with solid, stock performance and these deliver. If you rely on the BIOS to automatically set your RAM parameters, check them against your RAMs specs to make sure they match (I had 2 P67s that were incorrectly setting the timing and voltage causing BSODs in Win7 Pro - no problem once I manually set the values).

Overall very pleased with these boards thus far; I will repost if I encounter any future issues.

Cons: Automatic RAM settings in BIOS aren't always correct- double check them and adjust as necessary for your unique setup.

Pros: In order to get this motherboard running with an IVY Bridge processor you must first update BIOS. I used the instant flash feature via USB and by what seemed like magic, my BIOS was updated and I was able to successfully use my new Core i5 3570 CPU. I never really received a dialogue that it was updated, it just kind of all the sudden worked. It was strange, but when I went into BIOS sure enough it was spitting out all the info I needed about my new CPU. But other than that, it has been great so far, tons of PCI slots, looks great, USB 3.0, PICe 3.0, SATAIII, etc.

Cons: None, after the BIOS update. This mobo is a pleasure to work with.

Other Thoughts: AsRock P67 Extreme 4 Gen 3
Core i5 3570
XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black
8GB DDR3
120 GB Samsung 840 SSD
2 TB HDD 7200 RPM
Corsair 650W PSU

Pros: Bios looks pretty good, and overall build quality and layout is nice.

Cons: Not compatible with Ivy bridge processors unless you have ASrock ship you a new mb bios chip. I had them ship me one but still ended up returning my first board for being defective. I got my second board in and booted up with the new chip ASrock shipped me, and it works!

Other Thoughts: Not worth your time if you are planning on using a ivy bridge processor. Took me a month to finally get my new build running. Which, after spending a lot of money, can be very frustrating.

Pros: Arrived on Time. Everything worked until....

Cons: DOA...Didn't realize it until I tried BRAND NEW Memory just in case. Kept getting motherboard error 55. Checked the CPU, clean, not bent and worked fine. New Memory and still same code.

Other Thoughts: No issues except shipping I believe. The UPS guy that delivers our stuff is not very "fragile" with our items.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear AsRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. . If it's install with ivy bridge processor that needs to update the BIOS in order to recognize the new processor.
Please contact our Tech Support at 909-590-8308. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

AsRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@asrockamerica.com

Pros: Love it great mobo love dr debug great. awesome bios great price

Cons: none

Pros: Plenty of top notch connections. PCI-E 3.0, 4 SATA3 connections, and with the front header, 4 USB3.0 ports. The debugging LED came in handy as well. The board looks nice, and has plenty of room for an ATX mobo.

BIOS is quite nice, easy to navigate, and the manual made the install, wiring, and debugging pretty easy.

Sandy and Ivy bridge compatibility is also nice. I ended up having both versions in the board and it transitioned seamlessly after the BIOS update.

Cons: The software CD is filled with bloatware, and the on-system software in general feels cheap. I made the mistake of clicking "install all," and I spent a good day or two hunting down the program that installed shortcuts to zynga games on my taskbar and desktop after each reboot, and even then I had to go online to get the USB 3.0 drivers for the front panel because the included ones didn't work.

The SATA3 ports have to go through another chip and you have to manually set them as bootable. It seems a little pointless given that you only get full speed from an SSD if you use them with a SATA3 connection.

The for the first few days, it intermittently refused to boot with my nVidia 560Ti, beeping and telling me that I didn't have any video output. If it wasn't for the debugging LED I would have never figured it out. Hasn't done it since I re-seated it a few times and installed the Ivy-Bridge chip though.

Other Thoughts: Even with the sata3 issues, my computer still boots in under 30 seconds, so it's fine. The graphics issue seems to have resolved itself, and bloatware aside, this is an incredible board for the P67 chipset. It's a great value, and I can see this easily lasting me for a good while, with all of the newer and high speed connections.

Pros: Hands down the nicest MOBO I've ever used. All Asrock products I've bought have been great, this one was the best though. At the time of purchase, had an arsenal of features which you would be hard pressed to find on a much more expensive MOBO, such as a front USB3.0 header, (for which it also came with a front USB3.0 bracket, in the event your case didn't have front USB3.0), multiple sata3 connectors, rear USB3.0, and a whole arsenal of ports on the back panel.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Upgraded to a 3rd gen Intel i5, which this motherboard now supports, due to it coming with factory upgraded bios, however, mine was purchased even before the 3rd gen Intel i cpus had come out. This required a bios flash, which Asrock gives you many options on how to do it. Choice and a good selection of features. Asrock makes great products.