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Is the ASRock 990FX Extreme9 good for overclocking?

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For an AMD gaming build I want to use an FX 8350 and overclock the crap out of it (obviously), but the really good ASUS boards are about double to triple the price here that they are in the States, so I have my eye on the ASRock 990FX Extreme9.

For my LGA 1155 "daily" build that I keep in the living room, I'm using ASRock Z77 Extreme4 and it's quite decent. But I don't overclock that build because there's really no point. I haven't really found anything good online that gets into detail about the 990FX Extreme9, so I just wanted to ask you folks.
 

Any other recommendations are welcome.

 

Thanks!

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/990fx-motherboard-review-amd-fx,3464-18.html

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Sweet, thanks guys! Whenever I ask this same thing anywhere else people always recommend that I get an ASUS or Gigabyte board instead... but I can see it's a pretty sweet motherboard with a well-deserved price tag.

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Extreme9 is a very good (but expensive) overclocking motherboard.

∥FX8320 4.2Ghz@1.280v& 4.5 Ghz Turbo@1.312v ∥Thermalright HR-02/w TY-147 140MM+Arctic Cooling 120MM∥VRM cooled by AMD Stock Cooler Fan 70MM 0-7200 RPM PWM controlled via Speedfan∥Gigabyte GA990XA-UD3∥Gigabyte HD 7970 SOC@R9 280X∥120GiBee Kingston HyperX 3K∥2TB Toshiba DT01ACA200∥1TB WD Green∥Zalman Z11+Enermax 140MM TB Apollish RED+2X Deepcool 120MM and stock fans running @5V∥Single Channel Patriot 8GB (1333MHZ)+Dual Channel 4GB&2GB Kingston NANO Gaming(1600MHZ CL9)=14GB 1,600 Jigahurtz 10-10-9-29 CR1@1.28V∥Sirtec High Power 500W∥ASUS Xonar DG, Logitech F510∥Sony MDR-XD200∥Edifier X220 + Edifier 3200∥A4Tech XL-747H 3600∥dpi∥A4Tech X7-200MP∥decent membrane keyboard∥Philips 236V3LSB 23" 1080p@71Hz .

               
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Sweet, thanks guys! Whenever I ask this same thing anywhere else people always recommend that I get an ASUS or Gigabyte board instead... but I can see it's a pretty sweet motherboard with a well-deserved price tag.

 

Asus or Gigabyte are of course better, however this motherboard will not let you down as well. After all, it is using the same 990FX chipset. 

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